JD, Two things come to mind: (1) I _love_ how the Hopi by-and-large refuse to literally-translate their names, especially their surnames. Sure, we English speakers may get the pronunciation wrong, but those Hopi surnames just sound … cool. Unique. Special. Just like names like Giuliano and other Italian were unique-sounding 100 years ago. (2) We don't demand Ms. Hana Yamashita word-for-word translate _her_ name and then start _insisting_ on calling her, "Flower Under Mountain," now, do we? And if someone did that, we'd call that person an a%%hole, and rightfully so! No, we call her "Hana", or if we're being polite, "Ms. Ya-ma-shee-tah". Or if we're _really decent, nice people,_ we learn that it's pronounced, "Yamashta", and we call her that. *_Because that shows respect._* So, why do we insist on word-for-word translating Indigenous people's names instead of learning the correct way of saying them? Oh right, because we whites _still_ see Indigenous North-Americans as wildlife, not as people. 😠😡 That crap's gotta stop. BTW: I practice your name when I hear you say it in your videos, because I want to get it right to show you _respect._ I do the same with my South-Asian and East-Asian collegues. BTW2: Names are important. I grew up on Long Island in a large extended Italian-American family, and there were lots of cousins with the name "John". In conversation, to tell us apart, all of the "John"-relatives had their last name tacked on. Except for me, because my grandfather _always_ called me by my first and middle name. So, that's what all of my Mom's cousins, aunts, and uncles all called me, too. My father's parents always called me by my first and middle initial. So, I assoicate hearing my initials with my paternal grandparents, with that part of my family, and with their love. And I associate hearing my first and middle name together with my [numerous] maternal relatives, and with the love from that part of my family. And I've even told people who've married in, "You can call me, , you're family now." Notice that I'm not giving my middle name. That's because of the meaning it has to me, because I only let family call me that. So I guard it jealously. And that's my point - _names are _*_important,_* and if you're called something _only_ by family, or _only_ within your own culture, and you want to preserve that association, everyone _should respect that._
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JD, Two things come to mind: (1) I _love_ how the Hopi by-and-large refuse to literally-translate their names, especially their surnames. Sure, we English speakers may get the pronunciation wrong, but those Hopi surnames just sound … cool. Unique. Special. Just like names like Giuliano and other Italian were unique-sounding 100 years ago.
(2) We don't demand Ms. Hana Yamashita word-for-word translate _her_ name and then start _insisting_ on calling her, "Flower Under Mountain," now, do we? And if someone did that, we'd call that person an a%%hole, and rightfully so! No, we call her "Hana", or if we're being polite, "Ms. Ya-ma-shee-tah". Or if we're _really decent, nice people,_ we learn that it's pronounced, "Yamashta", and we call her that. *_Because that shows respect._*
So, why do we insist on word-for-word translating Indigenous people's names instead of learning the correct way of saying them? Oh right, because we whites _still_ see Indigenous North-Americans as wildlife, not as people. 😠😡 That crap's gotta stop.
BTW: I practice your name when I hear you say it in your videos, because I want to get it right to show you _respect._ I do the same with my South-Asian and East-Asian collegues.
BTW2: Names are important. I grew up on Long Island in a large extended Italian-American family, and there were lots of cousins with the name "John". In conversation, to tell us apart, all of the "John"-relatives had their last name tacked on. Except for me, because my grandfather _always_ called me by my first and middle name. So, that's what all of my Mom's cousins, aunts, and uncles all called me, too. My father's parents always called me by my first and middle initial.
So, I assoicate hearing my initials with my paternal grandparents, with that part of my family, and with their love. And I associate hearing my first and middle name together with my [numerous] maternal relatives, and with the love from that part of my family. And I've even told people who've married in, "You can call me, , you're family now."
Notice that I'm not giving my middle name. That's because of the meaning it has to me, because I only let family call me that. So I guard it jealously.
And that's my point - _names are _*_important,_* and if you're called something _only_ by family, or _only_ within your own culture, and you want to preserve that association, everyone _should respect that._
I go by Patton which is my last name idk the original translation