What kind of name is Hanadarko?

Answer 1

I have never heard the name before, outside of the TV series "Saving Grace," in which the main character is Grace Hanadarko (played by Holly Hunter). I have to wonder if it's a variation on the town of Anadarko, Oklahoma. Saving Grace is set in Oklahoma City. Wikipedia says that "anadarko" is a corruption of the Caddoan (American Indian) word "nadako" which mean place of bumblebees, so I guess you could say it's a Caddoan name. The same Wikipedia article says that the population of the town of Anadarko has a high percentage of Native Americans (41%), has a Lenape tribal government in town, hosts an annual Native American Exposition, and that it once had a tough, lawless reputation. That may have been what the writers were trying to suggest by naming the main character of the series Hanadarko, someone with a frontier toughness and wildeness, but also a mystical side.