A tweet I just saw is saying that the name of the state of Utah comes from an Ute word and, uh, the Ute people literally say it's not, and "Ute" isn't even how they refer to themselves
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
Well, Utah probably comes from the word "Ute", which is an exonym, most likely something Europeans picked up from a neighboring group
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Cf. the name of the Great Slave Lake in Canada, which is an awkward relic of the fact that the Dine tribe who lived in the region were called the "Slave" or "Slavey" people ("Esclaves" in French) by the Cree, who saw them as enemies to raid and enslave
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
And Europeans used the Cree name for everything because the Cree were the Natives they typically traded with For the purpose of, for instance, buying slaves
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It's awkward because AIUI there isn't actually a clear alternate name The people called themselves Dine, which was their general ethnicity, but they didn't have an endonym specifically for people from that region, which was the region where the Cree went hunting for slaves
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