PakotamIndigenous American, Yavapai Means "big man" in Yavapai. Name borne by a 19th century Yavapai leader that attended a peace conference with Ulysses S. Grant in 1872.
PerimPortuguese (Brazilian), Tupi (?) Possibly derived from Tupi piripiri, which refers to a type of reed. This is the name of the hero of José de Alencar's novel The Guarani (1857), a fictional member of the Goitacá people of Brazil... [more]
PetamComanche Peta Nocona (d. 1864) was a chief of the Comanche band Noconi. He led his tribe during the extensive Indian Wars in Texas from the 1830s to 1860. He was the son of the Comanche chief Iron Jacket and father of chief Quanah Parker with Nadua... [more]
Pilof & mGreenlandic Greenlandic name meaning "bog bilberry, great bilberry, whortleberry".... [more]
PiloĸmGreenlandic From pilugataaraa meaning "handles it with care" and short form of Pilutaĸ.
Piloĸutínguaĸf & mGreenlandic Greenlandic name meaning 'sweet little leaf', from a combination of Pilutaĸ and -nnguaq, a Greenlandic suffix meaning "sweet", "dear", "little" or Grennlandic name meaning "sweet little berry", from a combination of Piloĸ and -nnguaq, a Greenlandic suffix meaning "sweet", "dear", "little".
PinonmShipibo-Conibo From the Shipibo pino meaning "hummingbird" and the genitive suffix -n.
PinquanamShoshone Variant of Shoshoni name Pina Quanah meaning "sweet-swelling", from pihnaa "sugar, honey, sweet" and -kwana(h) "to smell (of)". This was the original name of 19th-century Shoshone leader Chief Washakie.
PiyotonfNahuatl Possibly means "little chicken", from Nahuatl piyo, "chicken" (borrowed from the Spanish onomatopoeia pío), and the diminutive suffix -ton.
PonponiomMiwok Leader of a band of Native American fugitives in California who called themselves Los Insurgentes and who rebelled against Mexican rule and the mission system in California.
PontiacmIndigenous American Pontiac or Obwaandi'eyaag was an Odawa war chief known for his role in the war named for him, from 1763 to 1766 leading Native Americans in an armed struggle against the British in the Great Lakes region due to, among other reasons, dissatisfaction with British policies.... [more]
PowhatanmAlgonquin The name of the Native American confederation of tribes in Virginia, which English colonists mistook for the name of Chief Wahunsenacawh, the paramount chief of Tsenacommacah, an alliance of Algonquian-speaking Virginia Indians in the Tidewater region of Virginia at the time English settlers landed at Jamestown in 1607... [more]
PozonmNahuatl Derived from Nahuatl pozoni, "to boil, foam, seethe; to become angry".
PurumafAymara Means "uncultivated land" in Aymara.
PushmatahamChoctaw Meaning uncertain, though scholars agree that it suggests connotations of "ending"; possible meanings include "the warrior's seat is finished", "he has won all the honors of his race", and, from Apushamatahahubi, "a messenger of death" (literally "one whose rifle, tomahawk, or bow is alike fatal in war or hunting")... [more]
QasallakmGreenlandic Greenlandic name meaning "lightweight red wood". It was also a term for a piece of soft red wood shaped as human with a weapon and placed in the inner forefront of a qajaq to ward off witches, since it was believed that they were afraid of this piece of wood... [more]
Qhana ArufAymara From the Aymara qhana meaning "clear; light, clarity" and aru meaning "word, language, voice".
Qhana ChuymafAymara From the Aymara qhana meaning "clear; light, clarity" and chuyma meaning "lung" in Aymara, conceptually seen as the 'heart' of a person or seat of sentiment and emotion in Aymara culture.