What’s in a name? Apparently quite a lot, if you’re Julián Apaza Nina, who re-baptized himself Túpac Katari in honor of two great indigenous revolutionaries: fellow Aymaran Tómas Katari and the great Quechuan leader Túpac Amaru II—both of whose own names also happen to be rife with meaning; “Katari” and “Amaru” translate to “serpent” in Aymara and Quechua respectively, while “Túpac” means “brilliant” or “resplendent” in both.

With a name like Tupac Katari, you’d hardly expect the man to do anything less then lead one of the greatest indigenous uprisings in Bolivian history, which, of course, he did. Gathering an army of some 40,000, Katari, along with his wife and commander-in-chief Bartolina Sisa, laid siege to the city of La Paz for 184 days in 1781. Though the siege was eventually broken by Spanish forces, and a subsequent attempt to re-take the city ended in Katari’s execution, the man is remembered as a hero and his compounded name lives on; leaders of modern-day indigenous movements in Bolivia have even been known to call themselves Katarismo.