Blaming tautological place names on colonialism

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Interesting reel. This guy is blaming tautological place names on colonialism.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1340418019913218

My comment: Tama used to mean river in old Japanese, so 多摩川(Tama-gawa) sort of means "river river". How does colonization factor into this Matt Mankins?