People like to be negative about Russia and the former USSR. I'm sure they have their reasons and some of them may be valid. However, one thing is clear when one looks at how those countries are internally subdivided (primarily into oblasts and krais) and the associated history, something which I did while doing data capture for the last project on which I was working. Even with a number of border changes, it's fairly clear that old tribal lands (from back when human societies were very much tribal) have largely remained intact. The rest of Europe, Great Britain and the Americas (including their overseas territories), in contrast, show a very clear tendency towards the native tribes being forcibly evicted and/or massacred (often to the point of extinction) by the colonists (chiefly the British, French, Portuguese and Spanish). To this day, many are still being denied the right to return.

The Americas (especially the USA) are particularly bad, considering the number of states (and places therein) that are named after the tribes that used to live there (or their names for places/landmarks) and many of those people are now nowhere to be found within those state's populations. (If they're anywhere, they're probably in Oklahoma.) It's one of the reasons why I wouldn't want to live anywhere in most of America. (The other being that my dealings with Americans tends to leave me with a mixture of anger, frustration and sadness at there lack of awareness of the wider world.) Strangely enough, the most politically Leftist states in the USA (as far as I can tell from what I've read about them) tend to be on the far right (and northernmost) geographically: Massachusetts, Maine, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont. If, for some presently unfathomable reason, I was going to live in the USA, I'd want to live in one of them.

White Americans, what? Nothing better to do?
Why don't you kick yourself out? You're an immigrant too!
Who's using who? What should we do?
Well, you can't be a pimp and a prostitute too!

Here's a list of states that are named for/after various tribes that used to live there:

1. Arkansas: Its name is from the Osage language, a Dhegiha Siouan language, and referred to their relatives, the Quapaw people.

2. Connecticut: The state is named for the Connecticut River which approximately bisects the state. The word "Connecticut" is derived from various anglicized spellings of "Quononoquett" (Conanicut), a Mohegan-Pequot word for "long tidal river".

3. Indiana: Various indigenous peoples inhabited what would become Indiana for thousands of years, some of whom the U.S. government expelled between 1800 and 1836. Indiana received its name because the state was largely inhabited by native tribes even after it was granted statehood.

4. Kansas: Kansas is named after the Kansas River, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native Americans who lived along its banks. For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes. Tribes in the eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys. Tribes in the western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison.

5. Massachusetts (Muhsachuweesut in Massachusett): Massachusetts was a site of early English colonization: the Plymouth Colony was founded in 1620 by the Pilgrims of the Mayflower, and in 1630 the Massachusetts Bay Colony, taking its name from the indigenous Massachusett people, established settlements in Boston and Salem.

OTOH, in 2004, Massachusetts became the first U.S. state to legally recognize same-sex marriage as a result of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's decision in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, and Boston is a hub of LGBT+ culture and LGBT+ activism in the United States.

6. Minnesota: Minnesota, which gets its name from the Siouan Dakota language, has been inhabited by various indigenous peoples since the Woodland period of the 11th century BCE. Between roughly 200 and 500 CE, two areas of the indigenous Hopewell tradition emerged: the Laurel complex in the north, and Trempealeau Hopewell in the Mississippi River Valley in the south. The Upper Mississippian culture, consisting of the Oneota people and other Siouan speakers, emerged around 1000 CE and lasted through the arrival of Europeans in the 17th century. French explorers and missionaries were the earliest Europeans to enter the region, encountering the Dakota, Ojibwe, and various Anishinaabe tribes.

The state is home to 11 federally recognized Native American reservations (seven Ojibwe, four Dakota), and remains a center of Scandinavian and German cultures with an influence of Lutheranism. In more recent decades, Minnesota has become more multicultural, driven by both larger domestic migration and immigration from Latin America, Asia, the Horn of Africa, and the Middle East; the state has the nation's largest population of Somali Americans and second largest Hmong population.[14] Minnesota's standard of living and level of education are among the highest in the U.S.,[15] and it is ranked among the best states in metrics such as employment, median income, safety, and governance.

7. Missouri: Named after the Missouri river. For over 12,000 years, people have depended on the Missouri River and its tributaries as a source of sustenance and transportation. More than ten major groups of Native Americans (including the Missouri tribe, "people with wooden canoes" and the Pawnee) populated the watershed, most leading a nomadic lifestyle and dependent on enormous bison herds that roamed through the Great Plains.

8. Nebraska: Nebraska's name is the result of anglicization of the archaic Otoe words Ñí Brásge, pronounced [ɲĩbɾasꜜkɛ] (contemporary Otoe Ñíbrahge), or the Omaha Ní Btháska, pronounced [nĩbɫᶞasꜜka], meaning "flat water", after the Platte River which flows through the state.

9. North (and South) Dakota: Named after the indigenous Dakota Sioux.

10. Ohio: The state takes its name from the Ohio River, whose name in turn originated from the Seneca word ohiːyo', meaning "good river", "great river", or "large creek".

Indigenous peoples, including Omaha, Missouria, Ponca, Pawnee, Otoe, and various branches of the Lakota (Sioux) tribes, lived in the region for thousands of years before European exploration.

11. Oklahoma (Choctaw: Oklahumma [oklahómma]; Cherokee: ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, Okalahoma [ògàlàhǒːmã́]): The state's name is derived from the Choctaw words okla, 'people' and humma, which translates as 'red'. Oklahoma is also known informally by its nickname, "The Sooner State", in reference to the settlers who staked their claims on land before the official opening date of lands in the western Oklahoma Territory or before the Indian Appropriations Act of 1889, which increased European-American settlement in the eastern Indian Territory. Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory were merged into the State of Oklahoma when it became the 46th state to enter the union on November 16, 1907.

Oklahoma is at a confluence of three major American cultural regions. Historically it served as a government-sanctioned territory for Native Americans removed from east of the Mississippi River, a route for cattle drives from Texas and related regions, and a destination for Southern settlers. There are currently twenty-five Native American languages still spoken in Oklahoma.

12. Tennessee: Its name derives from "Tanasi", a Cherokee town in the eastern part of the state that existed before the first European American settlement.

Granted, the title of this post is a little misleading, since not *all* of the tribes of North America have been wiped out by colonisers. However, of those still present, their numbers have definitely been greatly reduced (although not entirely by colonisers, in some cases).

Then there's the matter of the Confederate/pro-slavery states, including Mississippi: By 1860, Mississippi was the nation's top cotton-producing state and slaves accounted for 55% of the state population. Mississippi declared its secession from the Union on January 9, 1861, and was one of the seven original Confederate States, which constituted the largest slave-holding states in the nation. Following the Civil War, it was restored to the Union on February 23, 1870.

Until the Great Migration of the 1930s, African Americans were a majority of Mississippi's population. In 2010, 37.3% of Mississippi's population was African American, the highest percentage of any state. Mississippi was the site of many prominent events during the civil rights movement, including the Ole Miss riot of 1962 by white students objecting to desegregation, the 1963 assassination of Medgar Evers, and the 1964 Freedom Summer murders of three activists working on voting rights.

Many slaveholders brought enslaved African Americans with them or purchased them through the domestic slave trade, especially in New Orleans. Through the trade, an estimated nearly one million slaves were forcibly transported to the Deep South, including Mississippi, in an internal migration that broke up many slave families of the Upper South, where planters were selling excess slaves. The Southerners imposed slave laws in the Deep South and restricted the rights of free blacks.

From 1800 to about 1830, the United States purchased some lands (Treaty of Doak's Stand) from Native American tribes for new settlements of European Americans. The latter were mostly migrants from other Southern states, particularly Virginia and North Carolina, where soils were exhausted.[17] New settlers kept encroaching on Choctaw land, and they pressed the federal government to expel the Native Americans. On September 27, 1830, the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek was signed between the U.S. Government and the Choctaw. The Choctaw agreed to sell their traditional homelands in Mississippi and Alabama, for compensation and removal to reservations in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). This opened up land for sale to European-American migrant settlement.

Article 14 in the treaty allowed those Choctaw who chose to remain in the states to become U.S. citizens, as they were considered to be giving up their tribal membership. They were the second major Native American ethnic group to do so (some Cherokee were the first, who chose to stay in North Carolina and other areas during rather than join the removal).[18][19] Today their descendants include approximately 9,500 persons identifying as Choctaw, who live in Neshoba, Newton, Leake, and Jones counties. The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians reorganized in the 20th century and is a Federally recognized tribe.

Sources

1. Owen Lyon (Autumn 1950); "The Trail of the Quapaw"; Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 9 (3): 206–7. doi:10.2307/40017228

2. William Bright (2007); Native American Placenames of the United States; University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-806135984.

3. James Hammond Trumbull (1881). Indian Names of Places, Etc., in and on the Borders of Connecticut: With Interpretations of Some of Them. Hartford, Connecticut: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company. p. 60.

4. "Kansas Historical Quarterly — A Review of Early Navigation on the Kansas River — Kansas Historical Society".

5. The Encyclopedia of Kansas (1994) ISBN 0-403-09921-8

6. The A to Z of the Civil War and Reconstruction; William Lee Richter (b. 1942); Scarecrow Press; ISBN 9780810863361.

7. Stephen Lyn Bales (2007); Natural Histories: Stories from the Tennessee Valley; University of Tennessee Press; pp. 85–86; ISBN 978-1572335615