Long day with the district manager is a really long day in my opinion. Glad you got through it.
I'm thinking it's probably a bad translation from what ever the tribal language was when it was time to give the creek a white man name for a map.
The Snake river was so named because the translator for Lewis and Clark muffed the sign that signified the name. It should have been 'big river many fish'.
That was probably a lucky break for every school kid to come in Washington, Idaho and Oregon.
She is a good lady and good manager so having her along for the day was good. Not for every day by any means but she covers the entire south eastern US so she only sees me a couple times a year. She was headed to Florida today so she stayed in Houston for a flight out this morning. She said I was crazy for driving over last night after that big meal but I just like waking up in the city I am working that day. That way if something happens on the trip over I had least have several hours to get it resolved without losing any selling time.
Did you google your "I'm thinking" because that was also one I intentionally left out, but since you used the Snake river example I am thinking you didn't Google and it was your thought. The thought was it was a loose translation of a Mexican name since this was a part of Mexico years ago.
I did not Google it, but Spanish may make even more sense than native. I've been around a lot of places with two names (native and white) and they often aren't even close. Little town SE of here that old maps call Gunsight and now is known as Schuschuli. It's on the rez so the native name looks to be the long term winner.
I didn't think you did, that is why I said so. A well traveled and seasoned person like you knows those things from just looking at them and knowing similar situations.