abnaki:
|
those living at the sunrise (easterners) |
achomawi: |
river |
acolapissa: |
those who listen and see |
ahtena: |
ice people |
akwesasne: |
land where the partridge drums |
alabama: |
I clear the thicket |
apache: |
enemy (zuni word) |
apalachicola: |
people of the other side |
apalachee: |
people of the other side |
arikara: |
horns or elk people, or corn eaters |
assiniboin: |
ones who cook using stones (ojibwa word) |
atakapa: |
man eater |
atikamekw: |
white fish |
atsina: |
white clay people |
atsugewi: |
hat creek indians |
avoyel: |
people of the rocks |
bayogoula: |
people of the bayou |
bidai: |
brushwood (caddo word) |
brule: |
burned thighs |
caddo: |
true chiefs |
cayuga: |
place locusts were taken out, people at the mucky land |
cayuse: |
stones or rocks (French-Canadian word) |
chakchiuma: |
red crawfish people |
chehalis: |
sand |
cherokee: |
cave people (choctaw word), people of different speech (creek word) |
chetco: |
close to the mouth of the stream |
cheyenne: |
red talkers (dakota word) |
chickahominy: |
hominy people |
chickamauga: |
dwelling place of the chief (creek word) |
chipwyan: |
pointed skins (cree word) |
chitimacha: |
they have cooking vessels |
chontal: |
stranger (nahuatl word) |
choula: |
fox |
chowanoc: |
people at the south |
chumash: |
people who make the shell bead money |
clallam: |
strong people |
clatsop: |
dried salmon |
cocopah: |
river people |
comanche: |
anyone who wants to fight me all the time (ute word) |
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) |
fox: |
red earth people |
git' lissums: |
people of the Lissums |
gitksan: |
people of the northern Skena |
gros ventre: |
big bellies, one who cooks with a stone, he cooks by roasting (see atsina) |
hach winik: |
true people |
han: |
those who live along the river |
havasupai: |
people of the blue green water |
hiute: |
bowmen |
honniasont: |
wearing something around the neck |
hopi: |
peaceful ones or well-mannered people |
houma: |
red |
huchnom: |
mountain people |
hunkpapa: |
campers at the opening of the circle |
hupa: |
trinity river |
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 |
iowa: |
sleepy ones (dakota word) |
iroquois: |
real adders (snake) or we of the extended lodge |
jatibonicu: |
people of the great sacred high waters |
jatibonuco: |
great people of the sacred high waters |
jicaque: |
ancient person (nahuatl word) |
jicarilla: |
little basket weaver (spanish word) |
kainai: |
many chiefs |
kakwchak:
|
porcupine people |
kan-hatki: |
white earth |
kanienkahaka: |
people of the place of flint |
kanza:
|
people of the south wind |
karok: |
upstream |
kato: |
lake |
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 |
kwuda: |
people coming out |
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) |