Peter Coyote

Today, on IndianOrNotIndian.com...

Wait, that's not right. Today on NativeAmericanOrNotNativeAmerican.com...

Sigh. That just doesn't roll off your tongue. Anyway, let's get straight to the point: many think that actor Peter Coyote is Native American, because of his last name, natch. Well, guess what:

Turns out that Coyote's real last name is Cohon, and he changed it to because he saw coyote pawprints in a drug-induced hallucination. We know, we know, this raises a very important question:

How on earth did he identify them as belonging to a coyote? Why not a dog, a fox, a wolf, a dingo? "Peter Dingo" would probably get a profile on AustralianOrAustralian.com...