州都バトンルージュの名前の由来は何ですか？
French explorer Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville led an exploration party up the Mississippi River in 1699. The explorers saw a red pole marking the boundary between the Houma and Bayogoula tribal hunting grounds. The French name "le bâton rouge" ("the red stick") is the translation of a native term rendered as "Istrouma", possibly a corruption of the Choctaw "iti humma" ("red pole"); André-Joseph Pénicaut, a carpenter traveling with d'Iberville, published the first full-length account of the expedition in 1723. According to Pénicaut,
From there [Manchacq] we went five leagues higher and found very high banks called "écorts" in that region, and in savage called "Istrouma" which means red stick ["bâton rouge"], as at this place there is a post painted red that the savages have sunk there to mark the land line between the two nations, namely: the land of the Bayagoulas which they were leaving and the land of another nation—thirty leagues upstream from the "baton rouge"—named the Oumas.
See also Red Sticks for the ceremonial use of red sticks among the Muscogee.
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