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Example sentences for: platte

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' When French explorers came upon the name, they knew enough Sioux to know the name meant `board,' so they used a translated version of the Indian name and called it la Riviére Platte . English speakers adopted the French name and talked about the Platte River . They named one of the towns on its banks North Platte . But when the state applied for admission to the Union in 1867, it was under the original Indian name which they spelled Nebraska .