(n): one of the 50 states of the United States
(n): a member of the Algonquian people formerly of Illinois and regions to the west
(n): a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast
(n): the Algonquian language of the Illinois and Miami
(n): family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains
New state motto: "Please Don't Pronounce The 'S'" (thanks to http://worddaze.blogspot.com/2007/08/august-10.html)