Sounds like they still live here. And sounds like they were a homogeneous mass. There were differnt cultures living together and to choose a word they used, is a nice gesture, but still it was the whites who decided which one to pick
Hey, that’s just not true. Sure, the name of my state is Wisconsin, but we also have names based on “What it was called by the French, but pronounced wrong,” like Beloit (“buh-loit”), Butte des Morts (“boo-da-more”), and Lac Courte Oreilles (“la-coo-der-ray”).
Tbf a lot of the ‘new[city]’ was given their names by the British empire expanding their land. Just look at Australian state names… The Americans doing this in more recent times are simply following suit.
For example Manna-hatta was renamed by Europeans (specifically the Dutch) New Amsterdam and later renamed again by Europeans (this time the English) as New York.
By the time there were officially “Americans” (i.e. after the Independence of the United States) the deed was already done.
<span style="color:#323232;">Poland, Indiana
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Poland, Maine
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Poland, Chautauqua County, New York
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Poland, Herkimer County, New York
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Poland, Ohio
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Poland Township, Mahoning County, Ohio
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Poland, Wisconsin
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Uhhh, buddy? Most of those were Europeans born in “city name” who moved and founded “new city name” because they were born in “city name.” This is a you thing.
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