Favorite Indian (Native American) names

[Bodhisattva]

So, I'm currently reading a book about the Comanches. Of interest to me are the names. Everyone is familiar with the Sioux: Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, etc. Well, the Comanches had names that didn't quite translate as well to the Western ear.

My two favorite so far:

Cyote Vagina
Erection That Won't Go Down

:biggrin::biggrin2:

 

[SavannahDare]

I just googled a few:


He Who Saw Fire
He Gnaws his Master
Ugly Game
Hoarse Bark
The Feeble Effeminate One
The Decayed Shoe
The Amorous Man
Buffalo P___ (slang term for urine)

Some of those translations are pretty demeaning. :biggrin2:

 

[GoBama#1]

Wandering Crotch.

My ex girlfriend who I caught cheating on me then she lied about it when confronted.

 

[CrimsonPhoenix]

Hey...I take my Indians seriously. :biggrin:


Cochise....the Apache Chief is my favorite.

But I liked the Plains Indians most of all. The most important tribes were the Sioux, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Crow, Kiowa, and Comanche.

The Plains Indians put great value on their horses. This poem was written by one of them. I included it in a college paper years ago while studying Native American tribes.


"My horse be swift in flight, even like a bird;
My horse be swift in flight.
Bear me now in safety far from the enemy's
arrows, and you shall be rewarded with
streamers and ribbons red."

 

[Bodhisattva]

I just googled a few:


He Who Saw Fire
He Gnaws his Master
Ugly Game
Hoarse Bark
The Feeble Effeminate One
The Decayed Shoe
The Amorous Man
Buffalo P___ (slang term for urine)

Some of those translations are pretty demeaning. :biggrin2:

The Amorous Man came up in my reading last night.

I also forgot a name given to a captive white girl: Smells Bad When Walking. Yeah, she was probably never able to live that down.

 

[CrimsonPhoenix]

O.K. one funny name. Sorry...got caught by the censor....didn't realize.

 

[Bodhisattva]

Here's the book by the way:

[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Summer-Moon-Comanches-Powerful/dp/1416591052/ref=sr_1_1?s=gateway&ie=UTF8&qid=1285168665&sr=8-1]Amazon.com: Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History (9781416591054): S. C. Gwynne: Gateway[/ame]


The author claims the Comanche were the best horsemen and warriors on the plains. They ran off the Apaches, used Kiowas as their wingmen, threw out the Spanish, raided Mexico at will, killed and carried off thousands of settlers in Texas, etc. Brutal and fascinating history; I'm about half way through the book.

 

[Bodhisattva]

Wandering Crotch.

My ex girlfriend who I caught cheating on me then she lied about it when confronted.

bwahahahaha!

 

[Bodhisattva]

Hey...I take my Indians seriously. :biggrin:


Cochise....the Apache Chief is my favorite.

But I liked the Plains Indians most of all. The most important tribes were the Sioux, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Crow, Kiowa, and Comanche.

The Plains Indians put great value on their horses. This poem was written by one of them. I included it in a college paper years ago while studying Native American tribes.


"My horse be swift in flight, even like a bird;
My horse be swift in flight.
Bear me now in safety far from the enemy's
arrows, and you shall be rewarded with
streamers and ribbons red."

Very interesting about the Comanches and their horses. Now, I think everyone knows Plains Indians valued horses - they were the predominate form of wealth and currency. To put things in perspective, Sioux chiefs would have a few score of horses. Comanche chiefs would have thousands.

And I was suprised to learn just how terrified Apaches - in their own right legendary fighters - were of the Comanches. And Mexico invited white settlers into what became Texas primarily as a buffer between Mexico proper and Comancheria.

They apparently kicked some serious butt until the Texans began to adopt Comanche skills and tactics (Rangers).

 

[CrimsonPhoenix]

I was talking more about the general love of their horses too...not so much as which tribe had the most horses. Horses were a symbol of prestige to the Plains Indians and an important part of their survival...but it went further than that. Almost horse worship. Definitely a horse culture.

 

[bamanut_aj]

when my wife gets into the red wine and her teeth color, I call her Wendy Red Tooth. (her name is not Wendy, but that's another story)

 

[Tidewater]

The Feeble Effeminate One

That's a guy who had to know how to fist-fight when he was growing up.
Or maybe not, and that was how he got his name.

 

[cbi1972]

Running Water

 

[Bodhisattva]

From Kids in the Hall. Not exactly an Indian name, but .... :biggrin2:

 

[cbi1972]

Wow I had totally forgotten about that KITH skit.