List of company and product names derived from Indigenous peoples
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The following is a list of company or product names derived from Indigenous peoples, excluding geographic names.
Companies
- Amazon
- Crazy Horse[1] (Liz Claiborne clothing line)
- Indian Motocycle Manufacturing Company
- Mohawk Airlines
- Mohawk Gasoline
- Niagara-Mohawk Power Company, now part of National Grid USA
- Sioux Chief Manufacturing
Products
- American Indian herbal cigarettes
- Inca Cola, soft drink
- MBDA Apache missile
- Mohawk steam locomotive
- Mohawk tile and carpet
- Mohawk Vodka
- Quechua (ethnic group from South America)
- Red Man, chewing tobacco
- Ticonderoga pencils
- Wamsutta sheets
Automobiles
- Chevrolet Apache
- Chevrolet Cheyenne
- Dodge Dakota
- Ford Thunderbird
- Jeep Cherokee
- Jeep Comanche
- Jeep Grand Cherokee
- Nissan Qashqai (ethnic group from around Iran)
- Pontiac (brand)
- Pontiac Aztek
- Volkswagen Touareg (North African desert tribe)
- Winnebago
Aviation
- AH-56 Cheyenne
- AH-64 Apache
- Boeing-Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche
- C-12 Huron
- CH-21 Shawnee
- CH-47 Chinook
- Douglas C-47 Skytrain, called Dakota by the British and Commonwealth air forces
- H-13 Sioux
- H-34 Choctaw
- OH-58 Kiowa
- OV-1 Mohawk
- Piper PA-44 Seminole
- Piper Cherokee
- Piper Aztec
- TH-67 Creek
- U-8 Seminole
- UH-1 Iroquois
- UH-72 Lakota
Computing
Services
Railroad
- Southwest Chief, indirect descendant of the Super Chief, a run operated by Amtrak
- Super Chief, former (and famous) passenger run on the Santa Fe Railroad
Baking supplies
- Calumet, brand of baking powder taken from a French colonial-era name used for some ceremonial pipes
See also
References
- ^ "Liz Claiborne and J.C. Penney Criticized for Use of Crazy Horse Name". www.socialfunds.com. Retrieved 2017-10-17.