Female Native American Names [Suggest Namesfor this page ] [ Go toMale Native American Names] ABEDABUN: Native American Chippewa name meaning "dawn; sight of day." ABEQUA: Native American Chippewa name meaning "stays at home." ABEQUE: Variant spelling of Native American ChippewaAbequa, meanin...
Powerful & Strong Native American Girl Names Ashwiyaa (Native American; pronounced as “ash-wee-yah”) –“Arms oneself”; after the Chippewa Princess or Ojibwa woman known as “Hanging Cloud” who became the only female full-time warrior in her tribe (she participated in raids, war dances...
Her castaway tale captured 19th-century imaginations and inspired the novel 'Island of the Blue Dolphins.' Scholars today are diving deeper into her people's history in California's colonial past.
Testing a female descended through Pretty Voice, mother of Esther Ward, would determine whether or not White Calf was the mother of Pretty Voice, or if it was another woman, probably Beautiful Hail. John’s Y DNA John inherited his Y DNA chromosome from Charley White Weasel. John’s Y hap...
Aquash was one of the most well known female members of AIM, a veteran of the BIA occupation and Wounded Knee. Despite an initial cover-up by the FBI, an independent autopsy finds that Aquash had been executed with a bullet in the back of the head. The FBI or GOONs are primary ...
Uterine cervix Female AIAN 1998–2002 −5.6 2002–2018 0.6 0.6 White 1998–2003 −3.8a 2003–2013 −0.6a 2013–2016 2.4 2016–2018 −2.3 0.0 Abbreviations: AAPC, average annual percent change; AIAN, American Indian and Alaska Native individuals; APC, annual percent change. Note: Dat...
The two-spirit is a man or woman who mixes gender roles by wearing clothes of the opposite or both sexes, doing both male and female (or primarily "opposite-gender") work, and often engaging in same-sex relations with other members of the tribe. Two-spirit people often are shamans, perf...
La Flesche’s father was anOmahachief who was the son of a French trader and an Omaha woman. He sent his children to a Presbyterian mission school to provide them with an English-language education. La Flesche’s sister Susan became the firstNative Americanfemale physician, and her brother,...
Subsequently, the Navajo not only learned new weaving techniques and designs but in time also improved upon the acquired Pueblo methods, transferred the gender role of the weaver from male to female, and matured as far more sophisticated artisans. On the other hand, under the same circumstances,...
But her star had started rising long before then: her searing 1977 debut — Ceremony— earned her the MacArthur Fellowship (also known as the Genius Grant) and led many to consider her the first female Native American novelist. Her experiences growing up in the Laguna Pueblo tribe has been ...