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List of surnames of Native American origin. Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. A. Aymaran-language surnames (1 P) I.
Chee is a Chinese and Navajo surname. It may refer to the Min Nan or Hokkien pronunciation of the Chinese surname pronounced Xú in Mandarin, or the Cantonese pronunciation of the surname 朱 (zyu 1, Zhū in Mandarin). As a Navajo surname, it is derived from the root -CHIIʼ, meaning "red". It is also a variant romanization of the Korean ...
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Most words of Native American/First Nations language origin are the common names for indigenous flora and fauna, or describe items of Native American or First Nations life and culture. Some few are names applied in honor of Native Americans or First Nations peoples or due to a vague similarity to the original object of the word.
The term Navajo comes from Spanish missionaries and historians who referred to the Pueblo Indians through this term, although they referred to themselves as the Diné, meaning '(the) people'. [6] The language comprises two geographic, mutually intelligible dialects.
The Navajo now use the term in the sense of referring to "ancient people" or "ancient ones", [10] whereas others ascribe the meaning of Anasazi to "those who are different from our people"; (lit. Ana = "different from us" + asaza = "the old ones"). [11] Hopi people use the term Hisatsinom, meaning "ancient people", to describe the Ancestral ...
The granddaughter of a legendary Native American character, Raven the Trickster; she is a Red Indian mystic and the lover of the African American outlaw, Eddie Conroy. [citation needed] Jenny Everywhere: Jenny Everywhere: A superheroine who exists in all universes at once. [citation needed] Sandman/Soundman: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run
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