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November 2, 2011 06:52 pm PDT

Colombian officials assigned indigenous people "funny" names like Piss, Coitus, and Marilyn Monroe

The Wayu people, an indigenous tribe in Colombia, have been promised restitution after they discovered that the government workers who assigned them "normal" names gave them names like Piss, Coitus, Telephone, Clown, Tarzan, Land Rover and Marilyn Monroe. The names were recorded on their official ID papers 50 years ago, and they were all given [...]


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