Re: Ship Naming Convention (was: RE: What, no messages?)

Allan spake thusly upon matters weighty: 
> >-Medium cruiser - Native American tribes, other Seneca, Chippewa,
> >-Cherokee,Sioux, Manetaree, Aztec, Mongol, Zulu, etc)
> >Course, the NAC corvette/lancers are already Native American; have to
look
> >again whether there are other FT conventions you're skirting...
> 
> Uh, I didn't think the Mongols or the Zulus were American tribes...
> 
> Don't forget the tribes that are Canadian or on the border such as:
Haida,
> Ojibway, Huron, Iroquois, Mohawk, Oneida, etc., etc.

And of course Blackfoot, Blackfeet, MicMac, Inuit, and many others. 
This is an incredibly rich naming tradition. The world has so many 
aboriginal peoples, and so many having true "warrior" traditions, one 
shouldn't run out of names anytime soon. And it is fitting that the 
future or human space voyaging honours these diverse groups. 

Two more cents,

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