I was watching a stream (Laangg on twitch) and noticed the conquest war for this province had a wild name, so I looked up the province and got 0 results. When I finally spelled it right the only result with the province spelling was a link to the province list on the Eu4 wiki. After I saw it was a Myaamia (Miami-Illinois, central Algonquin) culture province I looked up those people and found this on wikipedia:
Wea, Wiatonon, Ouiatanon or Ouaouiatanoukak; autonym: Waayaahtanooki or Waayaahtanwa (″People of the place of the whirlpool″), because their main village Waayaahtanonki (″Place of the whirlpool″) was at the riverside where a whirlpool was in the river, under the term "Ouiatanon" was both referred to a group of extinct five Wea settlements or to their historic tribal lands along the Middle Wabash Valley between the Eel River to the north and the Vermilion River to the south, the ″real″Quiatanon at the mouth of the Wea Creek into the Wabash River was their main village.
In the source for this there is a repeated spelling for Waayaathanwa (without the n between Waayaa and thanwa), which does come up in search results. Also it states that this was the name of a person: "...Another day's journey downstream would bring us to the site of Waayaahtanonki (at the Whirlpool). In the 1820s, Pinšiwa and Meehcikilita stated that one man, Waayaahtanwa (Whirlpool Person), led the migration from the north that established this village. His name referred to a whirlpool that existed in the river near his original home. Ultimately, this entire new village and the people who lived there took on the name Waayaahtanwa. This name was eventually shorted in English to “Wea.”" (see endnote 10.)
I am not an expert on native american history or the algonquin languages so maybe this is an appropriate alternate spelling but if it is it isn't listed anywhere on the net.
Wea, Wiatonon, Ouiatanon or Ouaouiatanoukak; autonym: Waayaahtanooki or Waayaahtanwa (″People of the place of the whirlpool″), because their main village Waayaahtanonki (″Place of the whirlpool″) was at the riverside where a whirlpool was in the river, under the term "Ouiatanon" was both referred to a group of extinct five Wea settlements or to their historic tribal lands along the Middle Wabash Valley between the Eel River to the north and the Vermilion River to the south, the ″real″Quiatanon at the mouth of the Wea Creek into the Wabash River was their main village.
In the source for this there is a repeated spelling for Waayaathanwa (without the n between Waayaa and thanwa), which does come up in search results. Also it states that this was the name of a person: "...Another day's journey downstream would bring us to the site of Waayaahtanonki (at the Whirlpool). In the 1820s, Pinšiwa and Meehcikilita stated that one man, Waayaahtanwa (Whirlpool Person), led the migration from the north that established this village. His name referred to a whirlpool that existed in the river near his original home. Ultimately, this entire new village and the people who lived there took on the name Waayaahtanwa. This name was eventually shorted in English to “Wea.”" (see endnote 10.)
I am not an expert on native american history or the algonquin languages so maybe this is an appropriate alternate spelling but if it is it isn't listed anywhere on the net.
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