Statistics for Canadian Cities with Indigenous Etymologies

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Language of Origin	Definition	Answer	% Correct
Western Cree	"muddy water"	Winnipeg	83%
Mohawk	"place where trees stand in water"	Toronto	75%
Algonquin	"trade"	Ottawa	75%
Ojibwe	"person of the large river mouth"	Mississauga	58%
Algonquin	"where the river narrows"	Québec (City)	58%
Shuswap	"meeting of the rivers"	Kamloops	42%
Okanagan	"male grizzly bear"	Kelowna	42%
Inuktitut	"place of many fish"	Iqaluit	33%
Ojibwe	"cross"	Oshawa	33%
Halkomelem	"gathering place"	Nanaimo	25%
Innu (Montagnais)	"where water flows out"	Saguenay	17%
Halkomelem	"red fish up the river"	Coquitlam	0%
Innu (Montagnais)	"Mi'kmaq land"	Miramichi	0%
Inuvialuktun	"it looks like a caribou"	Tuktoyaktuk	0%