The Indian heritage of Rambo

[Jay Rambo]

So basically, Last Blood established official names and dates for Rambo's parents:

Reevis Rambo 1920–2000
Helga Rambo 1924–1969

So where's the Indian component? It seems to me strange that the German surname of the mother has been omitted from the tombstone. An estranged daughter? Probably.

Also:

Reevis is usually a surname, not a birth name?

[JudgeRico]

Jul 20, 2024 15:14:01 GMT -5 Jay Rambo said:

So basically, Last Blood established official names and dates for Rambo's parents:

Reevis Rambo 1920–2000
Helga Rambo 1924–1969

So where's the Indian component? It seems to me strange that the German surname of the mother has been omitted from the tombstone. An estranged daughter? Probably.

Also:

Reevis is usually a surname, not a birth name?

Rambo is a typical German surname, can be used in different spellings, usually like "Rambow".
forebears.io/de/surnames/rambow
Just as well as Helga has been quite a common name in Germany to be given to a girl in the first half on the 20th century.

The father might have simply taken the name of his wife and come up with a regular sounding first name, as he might have had his Navajo name only before meeting and actually marrying Helga.
For "Reevis", it is rather rare, but there are really no rules, what to use as a first name:
forebears.io/x/de/forenames/reevis

[Jay Rambo]

I should say that REEVIS was the surname of an Indian actor:

Steven Reevis (August 14, 1962 – December 7, 2017) was a Native American (Blackfeet) actor who had roles in the films "Fargo", "Last of the Dogmen", and "Dances with Wolves".

Steve Reevis was born on August 14, 1962, in Browning, Montana, to father Lloyd "Curley" and mother Lila Reevis. The fourth oldest of six children, he had two brothers and three sisters. Reevis grew up on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in northwestern Montana.

Reevis attended and graduated from Flandreau Indian School in Flandreau, South Dakota. Following high school graduation, he attended Haskell Indian Junior College in Lawrence, Kansas, where he received an associate of arts degree.