Have you noticed that many of Native American baby names have links to nature? While they’re in languages non-Native Americans might not understand, these beautiful nature names might offer the perfect name for both boys and girls. Whether you or your partner come from Native American heritag...
Peak Popularity: Kai is a unisex name. Traditionally, in Native American cultures, it has been more common for girls. In other cultures, however, it's more common for boys. It has been steadily growing in popularity in the U.S. since it arrived as atop 1,000 name for boysin 1979. I...
“He’s a fighter.” This is a Navajo baby boy’s name. There aren’t many Native American boy names that start with the letter ahiga (pronounced ah-HEE-gah). In 2018, only five boys were given the name Ahiga. If you choose this name for your child, he will most likely meet hi...
University of Wyoming Department of English associate professor and an adjunct faculty member in the Native American and Indigenous Studies Program, Caskey Russell, will be presenting the Sandeen Lecture in the Humanities on Monday, December 7. Russell will be discussing “‘Then Fight For It’: T...
Theirs was the first inter-racial marriage in American history. The couple soon had a baby son, whom they called Thomas.The Virginia Company realised that the story could give them some great publicity back home in England. They paid for Rolfe and Pocahontas, now known as Lady Rebecca Rolfe...
Allow the students to use these names during various activities. For kindergarten, it’s another opportunity to create a new name chart for alphabet letter practice and new nametag. This idea came from a teacher on the Kinderkorner web ring: To turn a playroom into a Native American village...
For example, I have seen German people with as much as 3% Native American DNA, which clearly isn’t. You need more evidence before confirming Native ancestry. Without additional research, you cannot prove your lineage to a tribe using DNA – no matter what any company tells you, although Y...
for my blanket had been stripped from my shoulders. I looked hard at the Indian girls, who seemed not to care that they were even more immodestly dressed than I, in their tightly fitting clothes. While we marched in, the boys entered at an opposite door. I watched for...
The problem with Isla was the language confusion. In Scottish it’s pronounced eye-lah and in Spanish it actually translates as island and is pronounced eees-lah. We liked the Scottish pronunciation most, but that just wasn’t going to fly in our Mexican-American household. And I didn’t...
120 degrees. Also known as the "1936 North American Heat Wave," it exacerbated the levels of human suffering during the ongoing Great Depression. Little Rock in Arkansas had to endure its hottest summer in 2010 between June and August when the temperature went above 90 degrees for two months...