[kabar]

Oklahoma: From a Choctaw word, meaning "red people," which breaks down as okla "nation, people" + homma "red."

Given the kerfuffle over the Redskins name (including the US Trademark office deeming it offensive,) how long will it be until Oklahoma is required to change its name?

[okie01]

Oklahoma: From a Choctaw word, meaning "red people," which breaks down as okla "nation, people" + homma "red."

Hmmmmmmmmm. My understanding was that it came the Ponca term: Land of bad water where red man get sick and die.

Of course, the Ponca reservation was just south of Ponca City -- located on the Salt Fork of the Arkansas.

[Dilbert San Diego]

And then just wait till the ACLU types get involved, with separation of church and state. Many places, such as St. Paul, St. Louis, San Diego, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, etc. will have to change their names.

[Verginius Rufus]

Many years ago, before the US census records were online, I was going through some census records (perhaps from 1880) and ran across an individual with the name Oklahoma. I didn’t write the location down—the man was an American Indian. It was well before the name Oklahoma was adopted for what was then Indian Territory.