Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, we ask you to rewrite a sentence in simple English without changing its general meaning. Essentially, you want to make the sentence easier to read by using simpler words, utilizing more straightforward sentence structures, and omitting non-essential information etc.

It was named after the Yazoo River , which , in turn was named by the French explorer Robert La Salle in 1682 as " Rivie re des Yazous " in reference to the Yazoo tribe living near the river 's mouth .
Yazoo city was named after the Yazoo River , which was named by the French explorer Robert La Salle in 1682 .