Indiana
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- Names
Indiana
IN
- Place Type
- state
- Description
- Originally inhabited by Mound Builders; when Europeans arrived, Algonquian-speaking Miami Confederation, Potowatomi and Delaware, lived here; claimed by French in the 17th century, by British in 1763, and by the colonists in the Revolutionary War. It was strongly pro-Union in the Civil War.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Canby, Historic Places (1984); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-); Times Atlas of the World (1994); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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