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  • LilB0kChoy@midwest.social
    7·
    24 hours ago

    Wyoming is a Lenape word. The Lenape were also known as the Delaware Indians so it’s named from their word which means “on the great plain”.

      • LilB0kChoy@midwest.social
        61·
        23 hours ago

        Thomas Campbell’s 1809 poem, Gertrude of Wyoming, helped popularize the name in the context of the Wyoming Valley.

        Yeah, maybe read up and learn some history.

        The Wyoming that Campbell described is a verdant valley bisected by the Susquehanna River in what is now northeastern Pennsylvania. In the mid 1700’s, the colony of Connecticut claimed it, citing a conveyance by King James the First under the great seal of England dated November 3, 1620. At the same time, the Six Nations Indian tribes—the Iroquois—claimed they owned the Wyoming valley, though it was mostly occupied by Delaware and other peoples pushed out of other places, who were sometimes allies of the Iroquois, and sometimes not.