Edgar Allan Poe agreed, in part: There should be no hesitation about “Appalachia.” In the first place, it is distinctive. “America” is not [a distinctive name] . . . South America is “America,” and will insist upon remaining so. Poe thought claiming the Indigenous name “Appalachia” might be some recompense for Indigenous people who had been “unmercifully despoiled, assassinated and dishonored.”
