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abnaki:
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those living at the sunrise (easterners)
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achomawi:
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river
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acolapissa:
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those who listen and see
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ahtena:
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ice people |
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akwesasne:
|
land where the partridge drums
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alabama:
|
I
clear the thicket
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apache:
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enemy (zuni word)
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apalachicola:
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people of the other side
|
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apalachee:
|
people of the other side
|
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arikara:
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horns or elk people, or corn eaters
|
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assiniboin:
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ones who cook using stones
(ojibwa word)
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atakapa:
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man eater
|
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atikamekw:
|
white fish
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atsina:
|
white clay people
|
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atsugewi:
|
hat creek indians
|
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avoyel:
|
people of the rocks
|
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bayogoula:
|
people of the bayou
|
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bidai:
|
brushwood (caddo word)
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brule:
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burned thighs
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caddo:
|
true chiefs
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cayuga:
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place locusts were taken out, people at the mucky land
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cayuse:
|
stones or rocks (French-Canadian word)
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chakchiuma:
|
red crawfish people
|
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chehalis:
|
sand
|
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cherokee:
|
cave people (choctaw word), people of different speech (creek word)
|
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chetco:
|
close to the mouth of the stream |
|
cheyenne:
|
red talkers (dakota word)
|
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chickahominy:
|
hominy people
|
|
chickamauga:
|
dwelling place of the chief (creek word)
|
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chipwyan:
|
pointed skins
(cree word)
|
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chitimacha:
|
they have cooking vessels |
|
chontal:
|
stranger (nahuatl word)
|
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choula:
|
fox
|
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chowanoc:
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people at the south
|
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chumash:
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people who make the shell bead money
|
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clallam:
|
strong people
|
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clatsop:
|
dried salmon
|
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cocopah:
|
river people
|
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comanche:
|
anyone who wants to fight me all the time
(ute word)
|
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cowichan:
|
basking in the sun that warms your back or warm land
|
|
crow:
|
crow,
sparrowhawk, bird people
|
|
dakota:
|
allie
|
|
erie:
|
log tail or cat people
(iroquois word)
|
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fox:
|
red earth people
|
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git' lissums:
|
people of the Lissums
|
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gitksan:
|
people of the northern Skena
|
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gros ventre:
|
big bellies, one who cooks with a stone, he cooks by roasting (see
atsina)
|
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hach winik:
|
true people
|
|
han:
|
those who live along the river
|
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havasupai:
|
people of the blue green water
|
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hiute:
|
bowmen
|
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honniasont:
|
wearing something around the neck
|
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hopi:
|
peaceful ones or well-mannered people
|
|
houma:
|
red |
|
huchnom:
|
mountain people
|
|
hunkpapa:
|
campers at the opening of the circle
|
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hupa:
|
trinity river
|
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huron:
|
ruffian, head of a boar (french words)
|
|
hwal'bay (hualapai):
|
people of the tall pines
|
|
ihanktonwan:
|
dwellers at the end
|
|
ihanktonwana:
|
little dwellers at the end
|
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iowa:
|
sleepy ones (dakota word)
|
|
iroquois:
|
real adders (snake) or we of the extended lodge
|
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jatibonicu:
|
people of the great sacred high waters
|
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jatibonuco:
|
great people of the sacred high waters
|
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jicaque:
|
ancient person (nahuatl word)
|
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jicarilla:
|
little basket weaver (spanish word)
|
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kainai:
|
many chiefs
|
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kakwchak:
|
porcupine people
|
|
kan-hatki:
|
white earth
|
|
kanienkahaka:
|
people of the place of flint
|
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kanza:
|
people of the south wind
|
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karok:
|
upstream
|
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kato:
|
lake
|
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kawchottine:
|
people of the great hares
|
|
ketsei:
|
going in wet sand
|
|
kickapoo:
|
he stands about
|
|
kiowa:
|
principal people
|
|
klallam:
|
strong people
|
|
klamath:
|
people of the lake
|
|
kotsoteka:
|
buffalo eaters
|
|
kutcha-kutchin:
|
those who live on the flats
|
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kwuda:
|
people coming out
|
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lakota:
|
friend or ally (same with dakota & nakota)
|
|
latgawa:
|
those living in the uplands
|
|
lenni lenape:
|
genuine men
|
|
lillooet:
|
wild onion |
|
lipan:
|
warriors of the mountains
|
|
machapunga:
|
bad dust
|
|
mahican:
|
wolf
|
|
makah:
|
cape people
|
|
maliseet:
|
broken talkers
|
|
massachuset:
|
at the hills
|
|
mdewankantonwan:
|
dwellers of the spirit lake
|
|
menominee:
|
wild rice men
|
|
miami:
|
people on the peninsula, cry of the crane, pigeon
|
|
michigamea:
|
great water
|
|
miniconjou:
|
planters by water
|
|
missouri:
|
great muddy, people with wooden canoes
|
|
moapa:
|
mosquito creek people
|
|
moatokni:
|
southerners
|
|
modoc:
|
southerners
|
|
mohave:
|
three mountains
|
|
mohawk:
|
the possessors of the flint, coward or man eater (abenaki words)
|
|
mohegan:
|
wolf
|
|
moneton:
|
big water people |
|
munsee:
|
at the place where the stones are gathered together
|
|
nahane:
|
people of the west
|
|
narragansett:
|
people of the small point
|
|
nanticoke:
|
people of the tidewaters
|
|
natsit-kutchin:
|
those who live off the flats
|
|
navajo:
|
cultivated field in an arroyo (tewa word)
|
|
nipmuck:
|
freshwater fishing place
|
|
nisga'a:
|
people of the Nass River
|
|
nokoni:
|
those who turn back
|
|
nooksack:
|
mountain men
|
|
nootka:
|
along the coast
|
|
oglala:
|
scatters their own
|
|
ojibwa:
|
to roast till puckered up |
|
okelousa:
|
blackwater
|
|
okmulgee:
|
where water boils up
|
|
omaha:
|
upstream people or people going against the current
|
|
oneida:
|
a boulder standing up, people of the standing stone
|
|
onondaga:
|
people on top of the hills
|
|
opata:
|
hostile people (pima word) |
|
ottawa:
|
to trade
|
|
otto:
|
lechers |
|
pahodja:
|
dusty nones
|
|
pakiutlema:
|
people of the gap
|
|
pamunkey:
|
rising upland
|
|
pantch-pinunkansh:
|
men altogether red
|
|
papagos:
|
desert people, bean people
|
|
papinashuash:
|
the ones who like to laugh
|
|
pascagoula:
|
bread people
|
|
passamaquoddy:
|
plenty of pollock
|
|
paugusset:
|
where the narrows open out
|
|
pawnee:
|
horn people, men of men, look like wolves |
|
penateka:
|
honey eaters
|
|
pennacook:
|
down hill
|
|
penobscot:
|
it forks on the white rocks or the descending ledge place, at the stone place
|
|
pensacola:
|
hair people,
|
|
people of the lakes:
|
tribes near the great lakes
|
|
peoria:
|
carrying a pack on his back
|
|
pequot:
|
fox people or destroyers
|
|
piegan:
|
scabby robes
|
|
piekuakamit:
|
the ones from the flat lake
|
|
piikani:
|
poor robe
|
|
pilthlako:
|
big swamp
|
|
pima:
|
river people, (papago word for "I don't know")
|
|
pojoaque:
|
drinking place
|
|
potawatomi:
|
people of the place of the fire, keepers of
the fire, (fire nation, fire people)
|
|
powhatan:
|
falls in a current of water
|
|
pshwanwapam:
|
stony ground
|
|
puyallup:
|
shadow
|
|
quahadi:
|
antelope
|
|
quapaw:
|
downstream people
|
|
quinnipiac:
|
long water country
|
|
sac:
|
people of the yellow earth or people of the outlet
|
|
salish:
|
flatheads
|
|
sans arc:
|
without bows
|
|
schaghticoke:
|
at the river forks
|
|
sekani:
|
dwellers on the rocks
|
|
seminole:
|
separatist, runaway or breakaway, peninsula people
|
|
seneca:
|
place of stone, people of the standing rock, great hill people
|
|
shawnee:
|
south or southerners
|
|
sihasapa sioux:
|
lackfeet |
|
siksika:
|
blackfeet or black foot
|
|
sioux:
|
snake (french version of other tribe's name)
|
|
sisitonwan:
|
dwellers of the fish ground
|
|
skokomish:
|
river people
|
|
taino:
|
we the good people
|
|
takelma:
|
those living along the river
|
|
tanima:
|
liver eaters
|
|
tangipahoa:
|
corn gatherers
|
|
tantawats:
|
southern men
|
|
tatsanottine:
|
people of the copper water
|
|
tawakoni:
|
river bend among red hills
|
|
tejas:
|
friendly
|
|
tenawa:
|
down stream
|
|
tennuth-ketchin:
|
middle people
|
|
teton:
|
dwellers of the prairie
|
|
tewa:
|
moccasins
|
|
thlingchadinne:
|
dog-flank people
|
|
tinde:
|
people of the mountains
|
|
titonwan:
|
dwellers of the plains
|
|
tonawanda:
|
confluent stream
|
|
tonkawa:
|
they all stay together or most human of people
|
|
tsattine:
|
lives among the beavers
|
|
tsetsaut:
|
people of the interior
(niska word)
|
|
tsimshian:
|
people of the river
|
|
tsuu t'ina:
|
great number of people
|
|
tubatulabal:
|
pinenut eaters (shoshone word)
|
|
tuscarora:
|
hemp gatherers, the shirt wearing people
|
|
two kettle:
|
two boilings
|
|
unalachtgo:
|
tidewater people
|
|
vunta-ketchin:
|
those who live among the lakes
|
|
wahpekute:
|
shooters among the leaves
|
|
wahpetonwan:
|
dwellers among the leaves
|
|
wailaki:
|
north language (wintun word)
|
|
wakokai:
|
blue heron breeding place
|
|
walapai:
|
pine tree people
|
|
wallawalla:
|
little river
|
|
wampanoag:
|
eastern people
|
|
wappo:
|
brave
|
|
waptailmin:
|
people of the narrow river
|
|
wasco:
|
cup, those who have the cup
|
|
wichita:
|
big arbor (choctaw word), raccoon eyes
|
|
winnebago:
|
filthy water people
|
|
wiwohka:
|
roaring water
|
|
wyandot:
|
people of the peninsula, islanders
|
|
yakima:
|
runaway, pregnant people, people of the narrows
|
|
yamparika:
|
rooteaters or yapeaters
|
|
yavapai:
|
people of the sun, crooked mouth people
|
|
yoncalla:
|
those living at ayankeld
|
|
yuchi:
|
situated yonder
|
|
yuki:
|
stranger (wintun word)
|
|
yurok:
|
downstream (karok word)
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