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Y. Yazzie. Yellow Robe. Youngblood (surname) Categories: Native American culture. Surnames of North American origin.
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.
1863–1950. 1870–1890s. Lakota. A prominent Wichasha Wakan of the Oglala Lakota, he was a combatant at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. During the late 1880s, he was involved in the Ghost Dance movement and was injured at the Wounded Knee Massacre . Black Hawk. 1767–1838. 1810s–1830s. Sauk.
Yvette Herrell, Cherokee Nation, Congresswoman from New Mexico. Chuck Hoskin, Cherokee Nation, member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from the 6th district. Shane Jett, Cherokee Nation, member of the Oklahoma Senate from the 17th district. Myron Lizer, Navajo / Comanche, Vice President of the Navajo Nation.
The genetic history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas is divided into two distinct periods: the initial peopling of the Americas from about 20,000 to 14,000 years ago (20–14 kya), and European contact, after about 500 years ago. [ 1][ 2] The first period of the genetic history of Indigenous Americans is the determinant factor for the ...
British surnames such as Williams, Jackson, Robinson, Harris, Davis, Brown and Jones are also common among people of non-British descent, such as African Americans due to slavery. [citation needed] Garcia and Martinez represent the rapid growth of several Hispanic communities in the United States. According to the table below, from the 2000 U.S ...
Canada itself is a name derived from a Laurentian Iroquois word meaning "village" [1] [2] (c.f. Mohawk kaná:ta’). [3] [4] See Canada's name for more details. Aboriginal names are widespread in Canada - for a full listing see List of place names in Canada of aboriginal origin. Those listed here are only well-known, important or otherwise ...
Several of the states that derive their names from names used for Native peoples have retained the plural ending in "s": Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, and Texas. One common naming pattern has been as follows: Native tribal group → River → Territory → State.