Ohio

from an Iroquoian word meaning “great river.”

Oklahoma

from two Choctaw Indian words meaning “red people.”

Pensacola (Florida)

Choctaw for "hair" and "people."

Roanoke (Virginia)

Algonquian for "shell money" (Indian tribes often used shells that were made into beads called wampum, as money).

Saratoga (New York)

believed to be Mohawk for "springs (of water) from the hillside."

Sunapee (lake in New Hampshire)

Pennacook for "rocky pond."

Tahoe (the lake in California/Nevada)

is Washo for "big water."

Tennessee

of Cherokee origin; the exact meaning is unknown.

Texas

from an Indian word meaning “friends.”

Utah

is from the Ute tribe, meaning “people of the mountains.”

Wisconsin

French corruption of an Indian word whose meaning is disputed.

Wyoming

from the Delaware Indian word, meaning “mountains and valleys alternating”; the same as the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania.