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Salazar.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
Salazar.
Principal English Translation: 

a Spanish surname taken by indigenous people; e.g. don Hernando de Salazar was the indigenous municipal governor in 1563 in Tlaxcala; the title "don" is inconsistent until this point, when he became governor
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 166–167.

Orthographic Variants: 
Salasal
themes: 
Names (for people, deities)