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Perengano (from the combination of the very common last name of Perez and Mengano). When several placeholders are needed together, they are used in the above order, e.g. "Fulano, Mengano y Zutano". All placeholder words are also used frequently in diminutive form, Fulanito/a, Menganito/a, Perenganito/a or Zutanito/a.
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.
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.
GOMER (G et O ut of M y E mergency R oom) is a name in medical slang for any patient who continually uses emergency room services for non-emergency conditions; its use is informal and pejorative. Element names from the periodic table are used in some hospitals as a placeholder for patient names, ex. Francium Male.
Actress. model. activist. Spouses. Michael Rubio. Charles Koshiway Johnston. Maria Louise Cruz[ 1 ] (November 14, 1946 – October 2, 2022), better known as Sacheen Littlefeather, [ 2 ][ 3 ] was an American-born actress and activist for Native American civil rights. After her death, she was accused by family members and journalists of falsely ...
Anne-Victorine Savigny / Matylda Průšová. French (Savigny) / Czech (Průšová) fortunetellers. Mahatma Gandhi. Mohandas Gandhi. Indian independence activist. Malaclypse the Younger. Gregory Hill. American writer and co-founder of Discordianism. Man Ray.
Pretendian (portmanteau of pretend and Indian[1][2][3]) is a pejorative colloquialism describing a person who has falsely claimed Indigenous identity by professing to be a citizen of a Native American or Indigenous Canadian tribal nation, or to be descended from Native American or Indigenous Canadian ancestors. [4][5][6][7] As a practice, being ...
The heyoka (heyókȟa, also spelled "haokah," "heyokha") is a kind of sacred clown in the culture of the Sioux (Lakota and Dakota people) of the Great Plains of North America. The heyoka is a contrarian, jester, and satirist, who speaks, moves and reacts in an opposite fashion to the people around them. Only those having visions of the thunder ...