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Brazil seems to be one of the few, if only country in the Americas where quite a few old-stock colonial families decided to abandon their Portuguese surnames and take on last names derived from the indigenous language ie Tupi (locations, pre-Columbian tribes, fruits, prominent native chiefs, etc) to emphasize their patriotism to their new country.
What if something similar had happened in the rest of the Americas? What would prompt such a thing to happen amongst the other settler societies in the Americas?