You don't need to feel bad for finding humor in the game of telephone that results in most of our place names. There are a whole bunch of names in the Midwest that came from the French asking one native questions about people who spoke completely unrelated languages that they didn't know.
In general, I agree. Seeing as how awful the history of Native American treatment in America is, including the willful destruction of their languages, in this instance I don't know . . . I feel like I messed up. I'm not the kind of guy that would want to blindly, and definitely not willfully, make fun of other people's language. It's a pretty precious cornerstone of culture.
Huh. I do think the situations is funny. Feels like i'm making fun of our mixups not their native languages, but what do I know about the other perspective.