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yellowcanine

(35,699 posts)
Wed Sep 2, 2015, 10:50 AM Sep 2015

If Ohio Repubs don't like Native American names maybe they should try to rename Ohio "McKinley"

Instead of expecting Alaskans to honor McKinley rather than using the Native American name.

The state takes its name from the Ohio River. The name originated from the Iroquois word ohi-yo', meaning "great river" or "large creek". The state, originally partitioned from the Northwest Territory, was admitted to the Union as the 17th state (and the first under the Northwest Ordinance) on March 1, 1803.
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If Ohio Repubs don't like Native American names maybe they should try to rename Ohio "McKinley" (Original Post) yellowcanine Sep 2015 OP
Can you see the Buckeye Band trying to do Script McKinley? pinboy3niner Sep 2015 #1
they've done *four* script ohio's, i think they can handle one mckinley... unblock Sep 2015 #5
Well... pinboy3niner Sep 2015 #6
Their ilk didn't want to change Squaw Peak name to Piestewa Peak either in honor of L. Piestewa. lonestarnot Sep 2015 #2
I have a buncha gopher mounds in my Ohio backyard Cirque du So-What Sep 2015 #3
I'd like to see Ronald Reagan highway renamed William McKinley highway!!! madinmaryland Sep 2015 #4

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
6. Well...
Wed Sep 2, 2015, 01:14 PM
Sep 2015
Picky, picky, picky




I saw the Buckeye Band do a battle of the bands with Michigan before a big game that I watched in the stands with a Redcoat. I wasn't a fan before then, but it was a thrill to see Script Ohio in person.

Cirque du So-What

(25,932 posts)
3. I have a buncha gopher mounds in my Ohio backyard
Wed Sep 2, 2015, 12:02 PM
Sep 2015

and I'd be proud if the legislature named any one of them Mt. McKinley.

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