385: apache, ojibwa, and dakota Dec 28, 2015
Indigenous peoples from the Americas and Oceania did not fare well with
colonization. Although probably the least of their concerns, many names
of the peoples were misunderstood, or misrepresentative, and then just
stuck. 'Apache' comes through Mexican Spanish, probably from the Zuni
word 'Apachu', meaning literally ‘enemy.’ Ojibwa comes from the Ojibwa
word 'očipwē', meaning ‘puckered,’ as a reference to their style of
moccasins. 'Dakota' comes from the name in Dakota, which literally means
‘allies’.
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