Why is Indiana the Hoosier state?
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I used to live in the state of Indiana years ago. As far as I know, the word "hoosier" is of unknown origin. One theory that I heard was it came from the common practice of shouting "Who's here?" upon receiving visitors.
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I don't think there is anything making Illinois that different from anywhere else is there?\n\nYou should put a question in here that is more specific and you will get much clearer answers. You should remove the location specific questions unless you know it is something that only applies to Illinois.
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Indiana does not have a state fruit.
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Being a Indiana native/Hoosier. I sure hope he does go into the "Hall Of Fame".
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The Hoosier State.\n\nI know how lame!
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It's called the Hoosier state because of all the bar fights they used to have.  Afterwards, the bartender would pick something up off the floor, hold it up, and shout, "Who's ear?"
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coz it is part of USA
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Why is there an Interstate highway in Hawaii?
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Indiana: It isn't all flat.\n\nIndianapolis (Indy Speedway, Children's Museaum, Indianapolis Zoo, State Fair), Marengo Caves, Nashville Indiana, Conner Praire, plenty of fishing and camping, wide open spaces.
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that's cute, but for people in indiana only
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A Hoosier is a resident or native of the U.S. state of Indiana. The term is commonly accepted and employed at all levels of discourse by Hoosiers themselves, and is considered neither derogatory nor informal. The word Indianan, as either noun or adjective, is rarely used by or about natives of Indiana. Deriving from common usage, "Hoosiers" is the team name for Indiana University athletic teams, and a movie starring Gene Hackman, about an Indiana high school basketball team that was also called Hoosiers.
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I'd take Indiana, as Wisconsin is just falling apart this year.
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Here's the link that will answer your question .....\nhttp://www.stats.indiana.edu/maptools/school_districts.htm\nJust click on the region in which you live.
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Just about all the major ones around the area, the state of Indiana seemed to be a drop off site for undesireables around the time of federally mandated forming reservations\n\nChippewa. Representatives of this tribe appear as parties to the Treaty of Greenville in 1795 and treaties made in 1817 and 1821 by which lands in Indiana were relinquished to the Whites. (See Minnesota.)\n\nDelaware. About 1770 the Delaware, most of whom were then living in Ohio, received permission from the Miami and Piankashaw to occupy that part of Indiana between the Ohio and White Rivers, where at one period they had six villages. In course of time, all moved west of the Mississippi to Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma. (See New Jersey.)\n\nErie. Erie tribal territory may once have extended into the northeastern part of the State, but this tribe played but little part in the known history of the region covered by it. (See Ohio.)\n\nIllinois. Representatives of this tribe appear as parties to the Treaty of Greenville in 1795, relinquishing land in Indiana to the Whites. (See Illinois.)\n\nIroquois. The earlier Indian occupants of Indiana were largely driven out by the Iroquois, particularly by the westernmost of the Iroquois tribes, the Seneca, yet they seem to have had few settlements in the State. (See New York.)\n\nKickapoo. When the Kickapoo were on Vermilion River, Ill., they undoubtedly occupied some of western Indiana for brief periods. (See Wisconsin.)\n\nMiami. The name is thought to be derived from the Chippewa word Omaumeg, signifying "people on the peninsula," but according to their own traditions, it came from the word for pigeon. The name used by themselves, as recorded and often used by early writers, is Twigbtwees, derived from the cry of a crane. Also called:\n\nNaked Indians, a common appellation used by the colonists, from a confusion of twanh, twanh, the cry of a crane, with tawa, "naked." \nPkíwi-léni, by the Shawnee, meaning "dust or ashes people." \nSänshkiá-a-rúnû), by the Wyandot, meaning "people dressing finely, or fantastically."\nTawatawas, meaning "naked." (See Naked Indians above.) \nWa-yä-tä-no'-ke, cited by Morgan (1851).
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SORRY HAD TO ASK THIS...WHY IS IT IN INDIANA THEY SAY...EVERY SINCE...AS IN EVERY SINCE I WAS KID OR I HAVE WENT TO THAT SCHOOL EVERY SINCE.  uggggghhhh i hate that.  Dont know the answer, but it all grates on my nerves, also.
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from The Word Hoosier by  Jeffrey Graf, Reference Department Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington \n\n\nThe best evidence, however, suggests that "Hoosier" was a term of contempt and opprobrium common in the upland South and used to denote a rustic, a bumpkin, a countryman, a roughneck, a hick or an awkward, uncouth or unskilled fellow. Although the word's derogatory meaning has faded, it can still be heard in its original sense, albeit less frequently than its cousins "Cracker" and "Redneck." \n\nAs for the word itself, it probably derives from the Saxon word "hoo" meaning promontory or cliff or ridge or rise or hill. Jacob Piatt Dunn, the finest scholar of the word, believes a Saxon beginning, and such a meaning survives in various place names in England. There is some sense in the notion, too, that those who applied the insult and those to whom it was applied (and who understood it) came primarily from British stock. \n\nThe unusual (ier or sier) ending has always been difficult to explain. Might it be from "scir" the old form of "shire?" The Hoo Shire would then be the Hill Country, the High Places or the Mountain Region. Would that meaning then extend to those who lived in the hills, making them the "hooscirs" and later the "Hoosiers," the mountain people, hillbillies by another name? \n\nIndiana Notes and Queries\nhttp://www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/internet/extra/hoosier.html\nNovember 1, 2000. Revised April 12, 2002
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You can find it through Indiana University's website.