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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.
Slang words that originate from the Native American languages of North America. Pages in category "Native American slang" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
Redskin is a slang term for Native Americans in the United States and First Nations in Canada.The term redskin underwent pejoration through the 19th to early 20th centuries [1] and in contemporary dictionaries of American English, it is labeled as offensive, disparaging, or insulting.
Okeechobee County – from the Hitchiti words oki (water) and chobi (big), a reference to Lake Okeechobee, the largest lake in Florida. Osceola County – named after Osceola, the Native American leader who led the Second Seminole War. Sarasota County; Seminole County – named after the Seminole Native American tribe.
refers to Native Americans in the Great Plains. [121] Redskin a Native American person. [122] Squaw (US and Canada) a female Native American. [123] Derived from the lower East-Coast Algonquian language Massachusett term ussqua, [124] which originally meant 'young woman', but which took on strong negative connotations in the late 20th century ...
Wasi'chu is a loanword from the Sioux language (wašíču or waṡicu using different Lakota and Dakota language orthographies) [2] which means a non-Indigenous person, particularly a white person, often with a disparaging meaning.
Along with these stories came the development of a new American slang. Santa Fe words and. Getty Images Santa Fe, N.M. boasts a rich history filled with stories, sayings, and symbols that capture ...
Chinook Jargon (Chinuk Wawa or Chinook Wawa, also known simply as Chinook or Jargon) is a language originating as a pidgin trade language in the Pacific Northwest.It spread during the 19th century from the lower Columbia River, first to other areas in modern Oregon and Washington, then to British Columbia and parts of Alaska, Northern California, Idaho and Montana.