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OHITEKAHmSioux Means "brave, fierce, warlike" in Lakota. From the Lakota ohítikA 'to be brave, fierce, bold, daring, furious, foolhardy, violent; terrifying, ferocious, warlike, recklessly bold'.
OHQUAMEHUDmWampanoag Name of a Nauset sachem who was one of nine sachems to sign a peace treaty with the English Settlers to Plymouth, Massachusetts.
OHSERASEmMohawk Means "new year" in Mohawk. This is the name of Shawn Youngchief's character on 'Mohawk Girls'.
OIGUINAfWampanoag Name borne by a possible daughter of Quadequina, brother of Massasoit.
OJINJINTKAfSioux Means "wildrose", from Lakota uŋžíŋžiŋtka 'wild rose fruits, wildrose, rosehip, rosebud'.
OPECHANCANOUGHmAlgonquin Means "he whose soul is white" in Powhatan. A noted bearer was a tribal chief of the Powhatan Confederacy of what is now Virginia in the United States, and its leader from sometime after 1618 until his death in 1646... [more]
ORATAMmHackensack, Native American A sagamore, or sachem, of the Hackensack Indians living in northeastern New Jersey during the period of early European colonization in the 17th century.
ORIZOBAm & fNative American Possibly from the Nahuatl word meaning "valley of happy waters". Another theory suggests it is a distant derivation of Tarshish, meaning "trading post".... [more]
OSCEOLAmHistory, Creek (Anglicized) Anglicized form of Creek Asi Yahola meaning "black drink singer" from asi, the name of a ritual beverage, and yahola "shouter". It was borne by a 19th-century Seminole leader.
OTAKTAYmSioux Means "kills many" in Lakota. From the Lakota óta (oh'-tay) 'to be many, much, a lot of, plenty' and kté (k'tay) 'to kill, slaughter'.
OTETIANImIroquois, Seneca This was the name of Red Jacket (known as Otetiani in his youth and Sagoyewatha (Keeper Awake) Sa-go-ye-wa-tha because of his oratorical skills) (c. 1750 - 1830), a Native American Seneca orator and chief of the Wolf clan... [more]
OTHAGWENDAmNative American Sapling, the older twin brother of Juskaha, culture heroes of the Seneca. They were born to a young woman magically impregnated by the West Wind. Flint was cast out by his grandmother who hated him, but Juskaha went looking for him and found him in a hollow tree, and took him back home where they grew up together... [more]
PANINNGUAQfGreenlandic Means "sweet little daughter", from Greenlandic panik "daughter" combined with the endearing diminutive suffix nnguaq. This is the second most popular name for girls born in Greenland (after Pipaluk).
PENTAQUODmNative American Pentaquod is a Sosquehannock name. This is the name of the 16th century first character of the novel "Chesapeake" (1978) written by J.A. Michener.
PETAmComanche Peta Nocona (d. 1864) was a chief of the Comanche band Noconi. He led his tribe during the extensive Indian Wars in Texas from the 1830s to 1860. He was the son of the Comanche chief Iron Jacket and father of chief Quanah Parker with Nadua... [more]
PILOf & mGreenlandic Greenlandic name meaning "bog bilberry, great bilberry, whortleberry".... [more]
PILOĸmGreenlandic From pilugataaraa meaning "handles it with care" and short form of Pilutaĸ.
PILOĸUTÍNGUAĸf & mGreenlandic Greenlandic name meaning 'sweet little leaf', from a combination of Pilutaĸ and -nnguaq, a Greenlandic suffix meaning "sweet", "dear", "little" or Grennlandic name meaning "sweet little berry", from a combination of Piloĸ and -nnguaq, a Greenlandic suffix meaning "sweet", "dear", "little".
PINQUANAmShoshone, Native American Variant of Shoshoni name Pina Quanah meaning "sweet-swelling", from pihnaa "sugar, honey, sweet" and -kwana(h) "to smell (of)". This was the original name of 19th-century Shoshone leader Chief Washakie.
PIREfMapuche Means "snow" or "hail" in the Mapuche language. It was used by American children's author Stephenie Meyer for a minor character in her 'Twilight' series of books.
PISEĸfGreenlandic Greenlandic name meaning '(Greenlandic) song'.
PONPONIOmNative American, Miwok Leader of a band of Native American fugitives in California who called themselves Los Insurgentes and who rebelled against Mexican rule and the mission system in California.
POPOCATEPETLmNahuatl, Mayan, Aztec According to the legend, at the beginning of history, when the Aztecs arrived in the Valley of Anahuac, before the mountains had reached their permanent form, a beautiful princess named Mixtli was born, in the city of Tenochtitlan... [more]
POWHATANmAlgonquin The name of the Native American confederation of tribes in Virginia, which English colonists mistook for the name of Chief Wahunsenacawh, the paramount chief of Tsenacommacah, an alliance of Algonquian-speaking Virginia Indians in the Tidewater region of Virginia at the time English settlers landed at Jamestown in 1607... [more]
PUSHMATAHAmChoctaw Meaning uncertain, though scholars agree that it suggests connotations of "ending"; possible meanings include "the warrior's seat is finished", "he has won all the honors of his race", and, from Apushamatahahubi, "a messenger of death" (literally "one whose rifle, tomahawk, or bow is alike fatal in war or hunting")... [more]
QASALLAKmGreenlandic Greenlandic name meaning "lightweight red wood". It was also a term for a piece of soft red wood shaped as human with a weapon and placed in the inner forefront of a qajaq to ward off witches, since it was believed that they were afraid of this piece of wood... [more]
QUISSIKmGreenlandic, Inuit Mythology Means "urinated on" in Greenlandic. Quissik was the name of a shaman, still remembered in local legends, who acquired that name when foxes in human figure urinated on him.
