Did you like the way Native Americans named their children long ago ?

Names like Mountain Fox, Running Water, Silver Birch and so many more beautiful names.


My friend a Native American Indian, favourite is Ehawee, meaning laughing maiden.

Did you like the way Native Americans named their children long ago ?
I do like the names chosen by Native Americans. I have always believed that Native American Culture could add a very valuable dimension to our American Culture. We are a conglomeration of many, many different cultures. Unfortunately we adopted both the good and the less desirable aspects of these cultures. I do not believe that the Native American Culture has influenced us to the extent that other cultures have and that we are less a people because of this. Hispanic culture also has some aspects that would improve our character.


This does not sound like a conservative Southwest Texan attitude. I do not wear a description or a title very well.
Reply:Most cultures have names that are poetic, my friends name in China means November Rain, I also know a Little Song, and other lovely names, of course they are Chinese and not as I have written them giving their English meanings. The Chinese language, mandarin is very descriptive, there is a word that means "a person far from home and all alone", cant remember it right now.





I thot of naming my daughter Autumn, a name I have always liked, and of course many non-native people have named their daughters Ocean, Spring, Brook, etc I went to school with a Leafa Forest. I do like the nature names myself.
Reply:Well, I'm one of those native Americans and I didn't have


any good names in the long ago. So when I went nuts


on the computer, I used up all the names I wanted to have all along. I started out with Stargazer, then mountaingal,


then blueclouds, then sunnyday, then mountainflower,


then moonraker, then wolfwoman and a few others.
Reply:I believe up until the indian schools that indian children were supposed to attend by order of the government, all children born were given a


name of an object. I never heard that this was based on what the


mother assumed their babies saw. But what she thought would be


a strong and proud name. I also heard that when they made their


first coup in a game of tag on a horse with a club or some object of


force, after they won or played that game, at the onset of manhood,


their names were changed to a life long name, that would be only


theirs.


In my fathers' family of indian ancestry, not anything was handed


down to him verbally, so he knew nothing other than he descended


from a great indian chief, according to his full blood Cherokee


grandmother. And she said his name only. I wish my father had been


interested enough to ask her questions about the old days. This


would have been around the late 1800's when she was a small girl.


What stories could have been passed down to me, and now I know


nothing but a name.


I watched a poignant movie on HBO tonight called, "Little Tree"


which was about a small Cherokee boy raised by his Indian grandma


and white grandpa in the Ozarks. And he was taken by the welfare


department and put into an Indian boarding school. He was given


the white mans' name of Joshua, because Indian names were no longer accepted in the white mans world. He was beaten and locked


behind closed doors in this horrible school, where it was ordered


he'd stay until the age of 18 or 19. Due to the conditions, he managed


to run away with the help of his grandfather. And he managed to


elude the welfare people from taking him again, by living with


another Indian relative until adulthood. And then went on his way to


see life on his own. A narrator tells the story in a first person narrative.


I didn't see the first of it, but I intend to. As in a sense, it is a part of


my cultural heritage also. And I need to know more about that period


and others before, before I'm too old to remember.
Reply:Babies were named after careful thought...they were named after other people that the parents had respect for or maybe something noble they had done!!! Not all names were "Rain in the Face" that's white people talk!!! Long ago they couldn't say "Mountain Fox" it was said in their Native tongue!!! The government took their names away and lined them up and were named after soldiers that's why many have white names!! I know a girl and her last name is Crazy Bear and I can name many, many more but not on this site because that is their privacy!! My avatar name is a nickname or slang meaning "Indian Woman"!!! My real Native name I won't disclose on this site because it's sacred!!! I was named after my Uncle Washa's wife and that is his Indian name!! Thanks to everyone for the respect and recognition...usually people humiliate questions like this!!! Thanks Susie and have a good day!!
Reply:Yes I think they have far more meaning to them, the problem is the would sound so out of place nowadays. If I was to name some one now this very moment with a name like that is would probably be: White Rain Falling, as we are having snowfall at the moment. What name would you come up with?


I would have loved to have been given a native american name, however being born and bred in modern day uk, I don't think' Sings on the breeze' would be suitable really - perhaps 'sneezes from pollution' would be more of a reality! lol :-)





Hope this helps.
Reply:They really are beautiful sounding names.......I wonder how they differentiated without last names.......but then times were different. . less people than today. . maybe they used the tribe they came from, or their chiefs name.......I am going to have to check this out. . . interesting, Foxy Lady (lol)
Reply:My Native American daughter, the youngest of my six children, gave birth today to a 9#2oz baby daughter in her home with a mid wife and her husband helping her. The cost $500.00 instead of over $5000.00. (no insurance)


Baby's name is Isis pronounced, Ice is. She told me what it meant but I forgot already.
Reply:to answer one person..no that is a myth for most. in my nation our names are handed down through the clans. they are given to us in ceremony and we are the only ones to have that name while we live. once we die the name goes back to the clan to be given to another child at some time.





you must remember that our names are in our languages. while there may or may not be a suitable english translation, the names were in the language of each individual tribe.
Reply:Yes. I love those names. Where do people think the indians would find english names back in those days? A neighbor years ago when I was a small child there was a woman who named her daughter Autumn Joy. It turned out the mother was a Lumbee Indian. Pretty don't you think? Poppy
Reply:I grew up in Montana and some of my friends were named after the first thing seen outside. A class mate's name was "Old Elk Running", but she used a more conventional name, ie.."Betty", while a boy I knew was just named "Smoke". I think those are great names.
Reply:Actually I never thought about it. Every culture has there own unusual names. Many are fascinating and quite beautiful.
Reply:Yes they are beautiful.





"modern" names too have meanings. eg. Helen =a light
Reply:Is is true that Native Americans were named after the first things that the Chief saw when they were born? Or is that just a myth?
Reply:yes one of my daughters and I text mess, and we give each other various names and come up with a few silly ones at times.
Reply:Beautiful names.
Reply:I have nothing but respect for the Native Americans, what a pity men cant live and let live.
Reply:named after the first thing the father saw after the birth. Two Dogs Breeding
Reply:I once had an Appaloosa horse.


A Cree friend named him "Neeche". It means "my friend and my brother".


He then did a smoke dance to bond us.


That horse was my best friend.
Reply:The names are imaginative. I like them.
Reply:My Indian name is Winterhawk
Reply:I like the name Amitola means Rainbow.





I think Bumblees meant to say,


Running Bear.
Reply:I like Aponi, which means Butterfly.
Reply:Running Bare
Reply:Yes. I think they are really cool names.
Reply:Not all names were cute and darling. Consider - Mary Looks Around Twice-Johnny Broke Shoulder - Man Afraid of His Horse - Frank Ten Killer-
Reply:Calling your daughter laughing maiden is very funny!
Reply:yes they are very nice names .i wanted to give my kids indian names to do with their conception but the wife refused to name them quicky in the cellar and make up shag

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