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
Thats the official story from the government of Utah is thats it's named after the Ute.
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Replying to @KidThorazine @Nymphomachy
or that it comes from an Apache word. Apparently both of these are disputed.
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Replying to @KidThorazine @Nymphomachy
30 seconds of research shows it's pretty unanimous the endonym is not "Ute" (they call themselves the "Nuuchi-u") but no one knows for certain what "Ute" is derived from The Ute themselves only became aware of it as the word they were called by the Spaniards ("Yuta")
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
well yeah but they where still called that and thats probably where the name came from.
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Replying to @KidThorazine @Nymphomachy
Sure obviously
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