The first sight Zalmai “Zeke” Zahir would see most mornings growing up in Seattle and on the Muckleshoot reservation was the white-capped grooves of Mount Rainier. A linguist, Zahir recently published ...

There are many hundreds of distinct indigenous nations and tribes throughout the Americas, each with their own unique languages, dialects and naming conventions. Though there's a vast array of ...

This is the first article in the Psychology Today "What's in a Name?" series, in which we will ponder the psychological ramifications of names, beginning with our oldest naming tradition, that of the ...

Mercy Awino with her husband charles ochieng at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Referal hospital in Kisumu after delivering a baby named Fidel Denis on a Christmas day.PIC BY COLLINS ODUOR What is in a name?

"This book is an index of tribal names collected from printed sources. Each entry includes tribal name, the "parent group" or ancestral tribe, original source for the tribal name, and approximate ...

The Puyallup Tribe is working to learn more about the many native names of the mountain now known as Mount Rainier. It is doing this with the hope of eventually restoring the original name of the ...