Name A City

[Janice]

Name a city in the US that is named after an ethnic group. The city and the group should be in the answer.
Lets see how many countries or groups we can find in the US.

Sioux City, Iowa............ named for the Sioux Indians

[CajunMama]

Opelousas, LA names after the Opelousas indian tribe.

Numbering approximately 200 in 1699, the Opelousas (sometimes rendered Opelousa) Indians were a small tribe inhabiting present-day St. Landry Parish. According to legend, the term Opelousas, which means "black hair or black skull," was derived from two lakes near the area they occupied. The lakes evidently appeared black from the excessive quantity of leaves along the lakeshores.

Considerable linguistic evidence indicates that the Opelousas group was closely allied with the Attakapas (Attakapa) and possibly even a member of the Attakapan assembly of tribes. The Opelousa understood the Attakapas and the language of the Opelousas is deemed to have been nothing more than an Attakapas dialect, but the Opelousas Indians' language unfortunately has not survived.

The tribe also did not survive. By 1814, the Opelousas were reduced to only twenty warriors as a result of the introduction of smallpox and typhus. The surviving Opelousas retreated in the face an antebellum influx of whites and the Muskhogean Indians from east of the Mississippi invaded their territory. The name of the Opelousas Indians, however, persists, for the St. Landry parish seat of justice bears their name.


http://ccet.louisiana.edu/03a_Cultural_ ... ousas.html

[cajungal]

Houma, Louisiana named after the Houma Indians.

[TexasStooge]

Irving, TX; named after author Washington Irving.

Settlers came to the area that is now Irving in the 1850's, and communities such as Sowers, Kit Shady Grove, Union Bower, Finley, Estelle and Bear Creek sprang up in the last half of the century. The new town of Irving, founded in 1903 by J.O. Schulze and Otis Brown, eventually swallowed most of these settlements. Irving was officially incorporated April 14, 1914.
Founding of Irving

Schulze and Brown, who were employed by the Chicago, Rock Island & Gulf Railway, arrived in 1902 to survey a railroad route between Fort Worth and Dallas. Having decided that this area would be an ideal town site, they bought 80 acres from the Britian family in 1902. The co-founders sold the first town lots at a public auction on December 19, 1903. The post office at nearby Kit was moved to Irving in 1904.

[Janice]

Texas, thanks for your post, most informative, but, these cities are not supposed to be after people, but ethnic groups, etc.

Like SanDiego would be named for the Spanish.

[vbhoutex]

Seminole, FL. named for the Semnole Indians

[gtalum]

Like SanDiego would be named for the Spanish.

Actually San Diego is named for Saint Diego. A city woul dbe called "Espanol" if it were named for the Spanish.



Choctaw, Al - Choctaw Indians

[Janice]

Thanks, I learned something today.