The State of Kansas is a Midwestern state in the central region of the United States of America, an area often referred to as the American "Heartland" or "America's Breadbasket" referring to the state's enormous wheat-growing agribusiness. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa tribe, who inhabited the area.The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south wind", although this was probably not the term's original meaning.