Indigenous
Omaha
Nebraska (NE)est. 1854pop. 483,335/OH-muh-haw/
The meaning
“Those going against the current / upstream people”
How it got the name
The Omaha call themselves Umonhon, understood as 'those who go against the current' — a reference to their migration up the Missouri while a related group went downstream and became the Quapaw, 'the downstream people.' The city on the river kept the upstream name.