indigenous surnames
( origin, meaning )

acothley ( navajo, cowboy )
adakai ( navajo, gambling hands )
ahoka ( cherokee, district )
akecheta ( sioux, soldier )
alberty ( famous in everything )
angpetu ( sioux, daytime )
altaha ( apache )
anoki ( sioux, actor )
apache ( apache, tribe name )
arrow ( descended from hunters )
awiakta ( cherokee, eye of the deer )

begay ( navajo, his/her son )
benally ( navajo, grandchild )
bitsuie ( navajo, grandchild )
blackrock ( from areas with black rocks )
bravebird ( has traits of an eagle and a bird )
bylilly ( navajo, his magic power )

canowicakte ( sioux, forest hunter )
catawnee ( cherokee )
cetanwakuwa ( sioux, attacking hawk )
chaska ( sioux, son )
chatto ( apache )
chewey ( cherokee )
chino ( apache )
chubback ( fur )
chumani ( sioux, drops of dew )
claw ( navajo, left-handed )
cly ( navajo, left-handed )
colagnee ( cherokee )
cosay ( apache, resident of white mountain reservation )
countryman ( lives in the country )
cornfield ( works in a cornfield )
culstee ( cherokee )

denton ( place name )
dosela ( apache )

enapay ( sioux, courageous appearance )
etsitty ( navajo, to pound )
eubank ( yew bank )

filemonsen ( son of filemon )

galilhai ( sioux, delicate )
ghigau ( cherokee )
goseyun ( apache, resident of white mountain reservation )

hatahle ( navajo, medicine man )
hatathli ( navajo, medicine man )
holt ( small grove of trees )
howahkan ( sioux, mysterious voice )
huaman ( species of hawks or falcons )

ishtasapa ( sioux, dark-eyed )

kadoka ( sioux, hole in the wall )
kanoska ( cherokee )
kipp ( to swell )

lapahie ( navajo, grey )
lisenbe ( cherokee )

macawi ( sioux, coyote )
maize ( corn )
maka ( sioux, earth )
mato ( sioux, scrubland )
mescal ( apache, plant name )

nahimana ( sioux, secret )
nakai ( navajo, someone who wanders )
nelowie ( cherokee )
nez ( navajo, large )
nosie ( navajo, resident of white mountain reservation )

ohitekah ( sioux, warlike )
onelasa ( cherokee )

paddock ( small enclosure )
peshlakai ( navajo, shiny and silvery )
pompey ( five )

sequoyah ( cherokee )
shanta ( apache )
sullicooie ( cherokee )
summerhill ( lives by hill used for summer grazing of cattle )
swiftwater ( near swift sources of water )

tabaaha ( navajo, shore )
taté-iyòhiwin ( sioux, reaching for the wind )
tesarkee ( cherokee )
tessay ( apache, resident of white mountain reservation )
thunderhawk ( descended from someone who has the combined power of thunder and a hawk )
todicheene ( navajo, bitter water people )
tsinajinnie ( navajo, black-streak clan )
tsosie ( navajo, slender )

uentillie ( navajo, very large )
uskilith ( navajo, white boy )

vance ( lives by marshland )

warcloud ( war chieftain )
watike ( cherokee )
welch ( foreigner )

yargee ( cherokee )
yazzie ( navajo, little one )

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