Tuesday 30 April 2013

What's in a name!!

First Nations could have many names in their life time. One at birth like, for son of or daughter of, At a certain age, the young men and women were given a name sometimes for life or change their name later in life. It was only one name, there wasn't any surnames in First Nations. When the Europeans came and baptism the First Nations people. They baptism them with a first name, like John, Jacob, Joseph or Margaret, Mary and Susan. Then their First Nations name example: Margaret Kviethentha, Abraham Onagsakearet and Jacob Quincbas. Later they took surnames. One famous example is John Yodeserontyon or John Deseronto, chief of the Bay of Quinte Mohawks. His father was Chief Warrior of Tionondoroge, Thomas Ganughsiddishe. Yodeserontyon, means (The Lightning has Struck). When he was baptism, he took John as his first name. Also, took John as his surname, his descendants surnames are also name John.

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