Tribal Names
Gathered and compiled by Phil Konstantin
http://americanindi
Tribal Name Meanings
or Alternate Tribal
Names
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Tribal Name Meanings |
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A'ani':
white clay people Abnaki: those living at the sunrise (easterners) Achomawi: river, people that live at the river Acolapissa: those who listen and see Acoma: people by the white rock Agaidika (Paiute): trout (or salmon) eaters - also spelled Agai-Dicutta Ahousaht: facing opposite from the ocean, people living with their backs to the land and mountains Ahtena: ice people Aitchelitz: bottom Akansea: land of the downriver people Akun'kunik': people of the place of the flying head 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 Apsaalookee: children of the large-beaked bird Apwaruge: juniper tree people A’qam: people of the dense forest or brush Arikara: horns or elk people, or corn eaters; people of the flowing hair Arosaguntacook: rocky flats river people Asiniskawiyiniwak: people in the place of lots of rocks Assiniboin: ones who cook using stones (Ojibwa word) Atakapa: man eater Atsina: white clay people Atsuge: pine tree people Atsugewi: hat creek indians Attawandaron: different language people Avoyel: people of the rocks |
Bayogoula:
people of the bayou Bedonkohe (Apache): in front at the end people Bellabella: milbank Bidai: brushwood (Caddo word) Binigulaza: people of the clouds Brule: burned thighs |
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Caddo:
true chiefs Cahuilla: leader, master, powerful nation (all questionable) Calusa: fierce people Canim: canoe, broken rock Catawba: river people Cayuga: place where boats were taken out, place locusts were taken out, people at the mucky land Cayuse: people of the stones or rocks (French-Canadian word) Chakchiuma: red crawfish people Cheam: wild strawberry place, the place to always get strawberries Chehalis: sand, beating Heart Chelan: deep water Chemehuevi: those that play with fish (Mojave word) Cherokee: cave people (Choctaw word), people of different speech (Creek word) Cheslatta: top of a small mountain, small rock mountain at the east side Chetco: close to the mouth of the stream Cheyenne: red talkers (Dakota word), little Cree (Lakota word) Chickahominy: hominy people Chickasaw: people from Chicsa, rebels Chihene (Apache): red paint people Chilcotin: young man river Chipewyan: pointed skins (Cree word) Chitimacha: men altogether red, they have cooking vessels Chokonen (Apache): rising sun people 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 Clayoquot: people of other tribes Cochiti: stone kiva Cocopah: river people Coeur d’Alene: those who are found here or heart of an awl (French words) Comanche: anyone who wants to fight me all the time (Ute word) Comox: place of abundance Conestoga: place of the immersed pole Cowichan: warm country, land warmed by the sun Crow: crow, sparrowhawk, bird people, people of the large-beaked bird Cuiui Ticutta: cui ui eaters |
Dakelh:
people who travel by water Dakota: allie Detsanayuka: bad campers or bad movers |
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Ehdiitat
Gwich'in:
people who live among timber or spruce Erie: long tail or cat people (Iroquois word) Eskimo: eaters of raw meat (Algonquin or Cree word) Esquimalt: the place of gradually shoaling water |
Fox: red earth people |
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Gingolx:
the place of the skulls Gitanmaax: people who fish with burning torches Gitwangak: place of Rabbits Gitxsan: people of the River of Mist Gwich'in: people who live at a certain place Gros Ventre: big bellies, one who cooks with a stone, he cooks by roasting (see Atsina) |
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winik:
true people Hagwilget: gentle or quiet people Haisla: living at the river mouth or down river Han: those who live along the river Haudenosaunee: people of the long house, people of the extended lodge Havasupai: people of the blue green water Heiltsuk: to speak or act correctly Hesquiaht: people of the sound made by eating herring eggs off eel grass Hia C-ed O'odham: sand dune people Hidatsa: willow (speculation) Hiute: bowmen Ho-Chunk: fish eaters, people of the big voice Hohokam: those who have gone Honniasont: wearing something around the neck Hopi: peaceful ones, people who live in a peaceful way Houma: red Hualapai: people of the tall pines Huchnom: mountain people Huichol: healers Hul'qumi'num: those who speak the same language Hunkpapa: campers at the opening of the circle Hupa: trinity river Huron: ruffian (French word) Hwal'bay (Hualapai): people of the tall pines |
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Ihanktonwan:
dwellers at the end Ihanktonwana: little dwellers at the end Illinois: those who speak in the regular way Iowa: sleepy ones (Dakota word) Iroquois: real adders (Algonquain word) or we of the extended lodge Isleta: kick flint place |
Jatibonicu:
people of the great sacred high waters Jatibonuco: great people of the sacred high waters Jemez: pueblo in the canada Jicaque: ancient person (Nahuatl word) Jicarilla: little basket weaver (Spanish word) |
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Kainai: many chiefs Kamloops: the meeting of the waters Kammedeka: jackrabbit eaters Kan-hatki: white earth Kanienkahaka: people of the place of flint Kanza: people of the south wind Karankawa: dog lovers Karok: upstream Kaskaskia: he scrapes it off by means of a tool Kato: lake Kawchottine: people of the great hares Ketsei: going in wet sand Kickapoo: he stands about, wanderer Kiowa: principal people, pulling out, coming out, people of the large tent flaps Kispiox: people of the hiding place Kitamaat: people of the falling snow Kitkatla: people of the salt, village by the sea Kitselas: people of the canyon Kitsumkalum: people of the plateau Klallam: strong people Klamath: people of the lake Klickitat: beyond (Chinook word) Kluskus: place of small whitefish Koop Ticutta: ground- squirrel eaters Kotsoteka: buffalo eaters Kutcha-kutchin: those who live on the flats Kuupangaxwichem people who slept here Kuyuidokado: cui-ui eaters Kwalhioqua: lonely place in the woods (Chinook word) Kwayhquitlum: stinking fish slime Kwuda: people coming out |
Laguna:
pueblo by the lake Lakota: friend or ally (same with Dakota and Nakota) Latgawa: those living in the uplands Lenni Lenape: genuine men Lheidli T'enneh: people of the confluence of the two rivers Lillooet: wild onion Loucheux: people with slanted or crossed eyes |
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Machapunga: bad
dust Mahican: wolf (incorrect translation per the Mohican Nation, Stockbridge- Malahat: infested with caterpillars, place where one gets bait Maliseet: broken talkers Mannahocks: very, merry people Maricopa: people who live toward the water Mascouten: little prairie people Massachuset: at the hills, people who live near the great hill Matsqui: easy portage, easy travelling Mayaimis: big water Mdewankantonwan: dwellers of the spirit lake Menominee: wild rice men Meskwahkihaki (Fox): red earth people Metlakatla: a passage connecting two bodies of salt water Miami: people on the peninsula, cry of the crane Michigamea: great water Mimbres (Apache): willow (Spanish word) Miniconjou: planters by water Minnetaree: they crossed the water Minqua: stealthy Missiquoi: place of flint Mississauga: great river mouth Missouri: great muddy, people with wooden canoes Moapa: mosquito creek people Moatokni: southerners Modoc: southerners Mohave: three mountains, people of the water/river Mohawk: the possessors of the flint, fire-striking people; coward or man eater (Abenaki words) Mohegan: wolf Mohican: the people of the waters that are never still Monacans: people who dig in rocks Moneton: big water people Mowachaht: people of the deer Munsee: at the place where the stones are gathered together Musqueam: place always to get iris plant root |
Nahane:
people of the west Nak'azdli: when arrows were flying Nambé: mound of earth in the corner Narragansett: people of the small point Nanticoke: people of the tidewaters Nanoose: to push forward Natsit-kutchin: those who live off the flats Navajo: cultivated field in an arroyo (Tewa word) Nehalem: where the people live Nicomen: level part Niantic: people of the long neck or peninsula Nihtat Gwich'in: people living together as a mixture Nipmuck: freshwater fishing place or small pond, people of the fresh water Niuko'nska: people of the middle water Nokoni: those who turn back Nooksack: mountain men Nootka: along the coast, along the mountains Norridgewock: people of the still waters between rapids Nusabi: people of the clouds Nuu-chah-nulth: arc of mountains rising out of the sea |
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Oglala:
scatters their own Ojibwa: to roast till puckered up. those who stammer Okanagan: head, top of head 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 Oweekeno: those who carry on the back, people talking right |
Pahodja:
dusty nones Pakiutlema: people of the gap Pamunkey: rising upland Pan'akwati: across the water Pantch-pinunkansh: men altogether red Papagos: desert people, bean people Pascagoula: bread people Passamaquoddy: plenty of pollock Paugusset: where the narrows open out Pawnee: horn people, men of men, look like wolves Payomkowishum: people of the west Pechanga: place where the water drips Penateka: honey eaters Pend d'Oreilles: hangs from the ear Penelakut: something buried Pennacook: down hill Penobscot: it forks on the white rocks or the descending ledge place, at the stone place Pensacola: hair people Penticton: permanent place, always place People of the lakes: tribes near the great lakes Peoria: carrying a pack on his back Pequot: fox people or destroyers or the shallowness of a body of water Piankeshaw: torn-ear people Picuris: mountain warrior people Piegan: scabby robes Piikani: poor robe Pilthlako: big swamp Pima: river people Podunk: where you sink in the bog 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 |
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Qawishwallanavetum:
people that live among the rocks Quahadi: antelope Qualicum: where the dog salmon run Quapaw: downstream people Quatsino: downstream people Quechan: those who descended Quinnipiac: Eansketambawg Qwulhhwaipum: prairie people |
Raramuri: foot runner |
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Sac:
people of the
yellow earth or people of the outlet Sakawiyiniwak: people of the bush Salish: flatheads Sammamish: willow people, people of the meander San Felipe: sticky earth place San Ildefonso: where the water cuts down through San Juan: strong people Sandia: dusty place Sans Arc: without bows Santa Ana: dancing place Santa Clara: valley of the rose water Schaghticoke: at the river forks Schitsu'umsh: the ones that were found here Sdukalbixw: strong people of status Sekani: dwellers on the rocks Semiahmoo: half moon Seminole: separatist or breakaway,peninsula people Seneca: place of stone, people of the standing rock, great hill people Shawnee: south or southerners Sicangu: burned thighs Sihasapa Sioux: blackfeet Siksika: blackfeet Sioux: snake (French version of other tribe's name) Sisitonwan: dwellers of the fish ground Siska: uncle, lots of cracks in the rocks Skidegate: red paint stone Skokomish: river people, strong people Skookumchuck: strong water Snuneymuxw: people of many names Spallumcheen: flat along edge Spokane: sun people or children of the sun (generally accepted) Spuzzum: little flat Sts'Ailes: the beating Heart Suisun: people of the west wind Sumas: big flat opening Susquehannock: people of the muddy river |
Tagish:
fish trap or spring ice is breaking up Tahltan: something heavy in the water Taino: we the good people Takelma: those living along the river Tamarois: out tail Tanima: liver eaters Tangipahoa: corn gatherers Tantawats: southern men Taos: our village Tarahumara: foot runner Tataviam: people facing the sun Tatsanottine: people of the copper water Tawakoni: river bend among red hills Teetl'it Gwich'in: people who live at the head of the waters Tejas: friendly Tenawa: down stream Tennuth-ketchin: middle people Tesuque Pueblo: cottonwood tree place Teton: dwellers of the prairie Tewa: moccasins Thlingchadinne: dog-flank people Timbisha: facepaint from the red rock Titonwan: dwellers of the plains Tl'azt'en: people by the edge of the bay Toi Ticutta: cattail eaters or tule eaters Toltec: master builders (Nahuatl word) Tonawanda: confluent stream Tongva: people of the earth Tonkawa: they all stay together, most human of people, people of the wolf Toquaht: people of the narrow place in front, people of the narrow channel Tsa-mee-nis: bitten breast Tsattine: lives among the beavers Tsawout: houses raised up Tsawwassen: beach at the mouth, facing the sea Tsay Keh Dene: people of the mountains Tsetsaut: people of the interior (Niska word) Tseycum: clay people Tsimshian: inside the Skeena River Tsleil-Waututh: people of the inlet Tsoyaha: children of the sun Tubatulabal: pinenut eaters (Shoshone word) Tukudika: sheep eater Tunxis: where the river bends Tuscarora: hemp gatherers, the shirt wearing people Two Kettle: two boilings |
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Uchuckledaht:
there inside the bay Ukomno'm: valley people Ulkatcho: good feeding place where animals get fat Unalachtgo: tidewater people Ute: land of the sun |
Viniintaii
Gwich'in:
people who live on or by the caribou trail Vuntut Gwitch’in: dwellers among the lakes Vvunta-ketchin: those who live among the lakes |
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Wahpekute:
shooters amoung the leaves Wahpetonwan: dwellers amoung the leaves Wailaki: north language (Wintun word) Wakokai: blue heron breeding place Walapai: pine tree people Wallawalla: little river, many rivers Wampanoag: eastern people, people of the first light Wappinger: opossum people Wappo: brave Waptailmin: people of the narrow river Wasco: cup, small horn bowl, those who have the cup Wea: the forest people, light skinned ones, people who live near the river eddy, people of the whirlpool Wendat: peninsula people Whel mux: people of spirit, people of breath Wichita: raccoon-eyed people, big arbor (Choctaw word) Winnebago: filthy water people Wiwohka: roaring water Wolastoqiyik: people of the bright river Wyandot: people of the peninsula, islanders |
Yahandeka:
groundhog eaters Yakama: runaway Yamparika: rooteaters or yapeaters Yaqan nukiy: the people where the rock is standing Yavapai: people of the sun, crooked mouth people Yoncalla: those living at ayankeld Yuchi: situated yonder Yuhavitam: people of the pines Yuki: stranger or enemy (Wintun word) Yurok: downstream (Karok word) |
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Zia:
scattered hills place |
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Abenaki
(eastern): Alessikantekw, Amaseconti, Androscoggin,
Apikwahki, Kinipekw, Ossipee, Panawahpskek, Penobscot, Rocameca,
Wawinak, Wôlinak Abenaki (western): Alnonba, Abnaki, Abenacquiouoict, Amoskeay, Cocheco, Coos, Koasek, Masipskwoik, Nashua, Ossipee, Pemigewasset, Pennacook, Pequaket, Piscataqua, Souhegan, Winnibisauga Absaroke: Crow Acoma: Akome, Ak’o Ma, Aa'ku meh, Pueblo Adai: Nateo Adamstown: Upper Mattaponi Ahantchuyuks: French Prairie Indians Alabama: Alibamu Aleut: Alutiiq, Unangan Alsea: Alcea Anadarko: Nadaco Anishinabe: Chippewa, Nishnaabe, Ojibwa, Potawatomi Apache: N de,Tinneh, Dine, Tinde, Unde, Shis inde, Aravaipa, Bedonkohe, Chihene, Chiricahua, Chokonen, Cibecue, Jicarilla, Kiowa, Lipan, Mescalero, Mimbres, Nednhi, Tonto, Yuma, Faraon Apache Mohave: Yavapai Appomattoc: Apamatuks Arapahoe: Inunaina, Atsina Arikara: Northern Pawnee, Ricara, Ree, Tsa'nish Assiniboin: Hohe, Hohe Nakota, Assinipwat, Stoneys Atakapa: Ishaks Atfalati: Falatah, Kalapuya, Tfalati, Wapato Lake Athapaskan: Dene Atsina: Haaninin Awaswas: Santa Cruz Aztec: Nahua, Nahuatl |
Bannock: Panaiti,
Banakwut, Nimi, Pan'akwati Bear River Indians: Niekeni Bellabella: Heiltsuqu, Heiltsuk, Elkbasumh Bellacoola: Nuxalk, Bilqula Beothuk: Beathunk, Betoukuag, Macquajeet, Red Indians, Skraelling, Ulno Biloxi: Taneks Blackfeet/Blackfoot Blood: Kainai, Ahkainah Boothroyd: Chomok Brule Sioux: Si can gu |
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Caddo: Adai,
Eyeish, Hasinai, Hainai, Kadohodacho, Kadohadacho Confederacy,
Natchitoches, Ceni Cahuilla: Agua Caliente, Augustine, Cabazon, Kawasic, Morongo, Los Coyotes, Painakic, Wanikik Calusa: Caloosa, Calos, Calosa, Carlos, Muspa Campo: Kumeyaay Carrier: Dakelh, Wet'suwet'en, Takulli Catawba: Esaw, Iswa, Iyeye, Nieye, Ushery, Anitakwa, Kadapua, Kuttawa, Oyadagahroene, Toderichroone Cayuga: Kweniogwen, Iroquois Cayuse: Wailetpu, Te-taw-ken, Guyohkohnyo Chakchiuma: Shaktci Homma Chalon: Soledad Chehalis: Copalis, Humptulips, Qwaya, Satsop, Sts'Ailes, Wynoochee Chemainus: Tsa-mee-nis Chemehuevi: Nuwu, Nuwuwu, Tantawats Chetco: Tolowa Cherokee: Tsa-la-gi, Ani-yun-wiya, Anikituhwagi, Keetowah Cheyenne: Dzi tsi stas, Sowonia (southern), O mi sis (northern), Tse-tsehese- Chilcotin: Esdilagh, Tl'esqox, Tl'etinqox, Xeni Gwet'in, Tsilhqot'in Chillicothe: Chalahgawtha Chimakum: Aqokdlo Chinook: Tsniuk Chipewyan: Otchipiweon Chippewa: Anishinabe, Ojibwa Chitimacha: Chawasha, Pantch-pinunkansh, Washa, Yagenechito, Shetinasha Choctaw: Chakchiuma, Chatot, Cha'ta Chumash: Santa Barbara Indians Clackamas: Guithlakimas Clallam: Klallams, S'klallam, Nusklaim, Tlalem Cochiti: Kotyete, Pueblo Cocopah: Xawitt Kunyavaei Coeur d'Alene: Skitswish, Schee chu'umsch, Schitsu'umsh Colville: Chualpay, Scheulpi Comanche: Detsanayuka, Kotsoteka, Nermernuh, Noconi, Nokoni, Numunuu, Padouca (Sioux word), Penateka, Pennande, Quahadi, Yamparika Comox: Catloltx Conoy: Piscataway Copane: Kopano, Quevenes Cora: Nayarit Coree: Coranine Coushatta: Koasati, Acoste Cowichan: Muskwium, Nanaimo , Sanetch Cree: Nihilawe, Kenistenoag, Iyiniwok, Nehiawak or Nay-hee-uh-wuk (Plains Cree), Sah-cow-ee-noo- Creek: Muskogee, Abihika, Abeika, Hitchiti, Homashko Crow: Absaroke, Apsaalooke Cupenos: Kuupangaxwichem Cuthead: Pabaksa |
Dakelh: Carrier Delaware: Lenni Lenape, Lenape, Abnaki, Alnanbai, Wampanoag, Munsee, Unami, Unalachitgo, Powhatan-Rená Dieguenos: Comeya, Tipai, Ipai, Kumeyaay Ditidaht: Nitinaht |
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Eskimo: Inuit,
Inupiat, Inuvialuit, Yupik, Alutiiq Equimalt: Is-Whoy-Malth |
Flathead: Salish,
Selish Fox: Mesquaki, Meskwaki, Mshkwa'kiitha , Outagami |
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Gabrieleno:
Tongva Ganawese: Conoys, Piscataways Gitanyow: Kitwancool Gitxsan: Tsimshian Goshute: Kusiutta Gros Ventre: Atsina (prairie), Hidatsa (Missouri), A'ani', Ah-ah-nee-nin, Haaninin, Minnetaree, Hitunena Gwich'in: Loucheux |
Hainai: Ioni Havasupai: Supai, Coconino, Havasu ’Baaja Heiltsuk: Hailhazakv Hia C-ed O'odham: Arenenos, Sand Papagos Hidatsa: Gros Venture, Agutchaninnewug Ho-Chunk: Winnebago Hohokam: Hoo-hoogam Hopi: Hopitu, Hopitu Shinumu, Moqui, Hapeka Hualapai: Hwal'bay, Walapai Huichol: Wirrarika, Wixalika Hupa: Natinnohhoi Huron: Wendat, Wyandot |
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Illinois: Albiui,
Amonokoa, Cahokia, Chepoussa, Chinkoa, Espeminkia, Kaskaskia, Maroa,
Matchinkoa, Michibousa, Michigamea, Moingwena, Negawichi, Peoria,
Tamaroa, Tapouara Ingalik Athapaskans: Deg Het'an Iowa: Baxoje, Pahodja Iroquois: Haudenosaunee, Hodenosaunee, Ongwanosionni, Hotinonshonni Isleta: Pueblo, Siahwibak |
Jemez: Tuwa,
Pueblo Jicarilla Apache: Tinde, Dinde, Haisndayin Juaneño: Acagchemem |
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Kalispel: Pend
d'Oreilles Kamia: Tipai Kansa: Hutanga, Kansas, Kanza, Kaw, Nahane Karuk: Karok, Araar Kato: Tlokeang Kaw: Kanza Keres: Pueblo, Acoma, Cochiti, Isleta, Laguna, San Felipe, Santa Ana, Santo Domingo, Zia Kickapoo: Kiwigapawa Kiowa: Kwuda, Tepda, Tepkinago, Gaigwu, Kompabianta, Kauigu Kiowa Apache: Nadiisha Dena, Semat Klallams: Clallams Klamath: Eukshikni Maklaks, Auksni Klickitat: Qwulhhwaipum Kootenai: Kuronoqa, Kutenai, Kootenay, Yaqan nukiy, Akun'kunik', Ktunaxa Koso: Panamint Karok: Karuk, Arra-arra Ktunaxa: Kootenay Kumeyaay: Diegueño, Barona, Sycuan, Viejas, Campo, Cuyapaipe, Ewiiaapaayp, Ipai, Tipai Kuitsh: Lower Umpqua Kutchin: Gwich'in, Dindjié Kutenai: Asanka, Kootenay |
Laguna:
Pokwindiwe Onwi, Pueblo Lakota: Hunkpapa, Itazipco, Miniconjou, Oglala, Ooinunpa, Sicangu, Sihasapa, Teton Lancandon: Maya, Hach Winik Latgawa: Rogue Lemhi Shoshone: Agaidika, Salmon Eaters, Tukudika, Sheep Eater Loucheux: Gwich'in Lillooet: Lil'wat, St'át'imc, T'it'kit, St'at'imcets Lipan: Naizhan Lower Sioux: Mdewakanton, Wahpekute Luiseño: Ataxum, La Jolla, Payomkowishum, Pechanga, Soboba, Quechnajuichom, Juaneño Lumbee: Cheraw |
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Maicopa:
Xalychidom Piipaash, Pipatsji Makah: Kwenetchechat, Kwi-dai-da'ch, Kwih-dich-chuh- Maliseet: Wolastoqiyik Mandan: Metutahanke or Mawatani (after 1837), Numakaki (before 1837) Manhattan: Rechgawawank Manso: Maise, Mansa, Manse, Manxo, Gorreta, Gorrite, Tanpachoa Maricopa: Xalychidom Piipaash, Xalchidom Pii-pash, Pipatsje, Pee-posh Miami: Twightwis, Twa-h-twa-h, Oumameg, Pkiiwileni Micmac: Mi'kmaq Miniconjou: Mnikawozu, Mnikowoju, Minnicoujou Mi'kmaq: Lnu'k, L'nu'k Missouri: Niutachi Miwok: Olamentke Mixtec: Ñusabi, Nusabi Moapa: Moapariats, Nuwuvi, Moah-pitz Modoc: Moatokni, Okkowish Mohave: Mojave, Tzinamaa, Ahamakav, Hamakhava Mohawk: Kanienkahaka, Kaniengehage, Abenaki, Iroquois, Akwesasne Mohican: Muh-he-con-neok, Mahikan, Mahican, Muhhekunneuw Molala: Latiwe Mono: Monache Moratoc: Nottoway Mosopelea: Ofom Munsee: Minasinink, Homenethiki Muskogee: Creek, Homashko |
Nanticoke:
Unalachtgo, Onehtikoki Nashaway: Nashua, Weshacum Nauset: Cape Code Navajo: Diné, Dineh, Tenuai, Navaho Neutrals: Attawandaron Nez Perce: Nee-me-poo, Nimipu, Kamuinu, Tsutpeli, Sahaptin, Chopunnish Niantic: Nehantick, Nehantucket Nisga'a: Tsimshian Nootka: Nuu-chah-nulth Northern Ojibwa: Saulteaux, Sauteux Nuu-chah-nulth: Nootka Nuxalk: Kimsquit, Kwalhnmc, South Bentick Sutslmc, Taliyumc |
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Ogallala:
Okandanda Ohlone: Costanoan, Muwekma Ojibwa: Chippewa, Anishinabe, Missisauga, Odjbway, Saginaw, Saulteurs Okanagon: Isonkuaili, Nsilxcin Omaha: UmonHon Oneida: Iroquois Onondaga: Seneca, Iroquois Oohenupa: Two Kettle, Oohenonpa Osage: Wa-Shah-She, Wakon, Wazhazhe, Niuko'nska Ottawa: Adawe, Odawa, Otawaki Otto: Chewaerae, Oto, Otoe Oulaouaes: Necariages Oweekeno: Kwakiutl, Oweehena |
Pacheenaht:
Nootka Paiute: Numa, Numu, Nuwuvi, Newe, Kuyuiticutta, Kuyuidokado, Agai-Dicutta, Toi Ticutta, Payuchi, Paviotso, Shebit, Shivwit, Koosharem, Kanosh, Wadatika Papagos: Tohono O'odham, Ak-chin, Yohono Au'autam Parianuc: White River Utes Passamaquoddy: Peskedemakddi Patchogue: Unkechaug Pawnee: Pariki, Panyi, Chahiksichahiks, Ckirihki Kuruuriki, Awah.i Pechanga: Luiseño Pecos: Pueblos from Jemez Pend d'Oreilles: Kalispel Pennacook: Merrimack Penobscot: Pannawanbskek, Penaubsket Petun: Khionontateronon, Tionontati Picuris: Pikuri, Pueblo Piegan: Blood, Kainai, Pikuni, Pigunni, Ahpikuni Pima: Onk Akimel Au-authm, Akimel O'odham, A-atam, Akimul Au'autam, Tohono O'odham (incorrectly) Piro: Tortuga Piscataway: Conoy Pit River: Achomawi, Atsugewi Pocomtuc: Deerfield Pojoaque: P’o Suwae Geh, Pueblo Pomo: Kashaya Poosepatuck: Unkechaug Popolucas: Chochos Potawatomi: Bodewadmi, Neshnabe Powhatan: Appamattuck, Arrohateck, Chiskiack, Kecoughtan, Mattaponi, Moraughtacund, Nancemond, Pamunkey, Paspahegh, Quiyoughcohannock, Rappahannock, Warraskoyack, Weyanoak, Youghtanund Pueblo: Acoma, Cochiti, Isleta, Jemez, Laguna, Nambé, Picuris, Sandia, San Felipe, San Ildefonso, San Juan, Santa Clara, Santo Domingo, Taos, Tesuque, Zia, Zuni Pyramid Lake Paiute: Kuyuidokado |
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Quapaw: Quapah,
Akansea, Arkansas, Ouaguapas, Ugakhpa Quechan: Yuma, Kwtsan Quileute: Quil-leh-ute Quinault: Qui-nai-elts |
Ramaytush: San Francisco, Ohlone |
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Sac
and Fox: Sauk, Asakiwaki, Meshkwakihug, Fox Sahwnee: Shawadasay Salish: Okinagan, Flathead Saanich: Pauquachin, Tsawout, Tsartlip, Tseycum, Malahat San Felipe: Katishtya, Pueblo San Ildefonso: Po-Woh-Ge-Oweenge, Pueblo San Juan: Ohkay Owingeh, Pueblo Sandia: Nafiat, Pueblo Sanpoil: Nesilextcl'a, N'pooh-le, Spoilehieh Sans Arc: Itazipco Santa Ana: Tamaya, Pueblo Santa Clara: Kha P’o, Pueblo Santee: Mdewakanton, Sisseton, Wahpekute, Wahpeton Santo Domingo: Tyiwa, Pueblo Saponi: Monasukapanough Sauk: Hothaaki, Thakiki Scioto: (Five Nations of the Scioto Plains) Shawnee, Wyandot, Delaware, Munsee, Seneca Sechelt: Shashishalhem Seminole: Ikaniuksalgi, Alachua, Mikasuki Seneca: Iroquois, Onondaga Senijextee: Lake Indians Serrano: Cowangachem, Mohineyam, Qawishwallanavetum, Yuhavitam Shawnee: Savannah, Chillicothe, Hathawekela, Mequachake, Pekowi, Piqua Shoshone: Agaidika, Hohandika, Kammedeka, Lemhi, Nimi, Pohogwe, Shonivikidika, Shoshoni, Snake, Tazaaigadika, Tivatika, Tukuarika, Tukudeka, Wihinaitti, Yahandeka Shuswap: Secwepmec Sioux: Brule, Dakota, Hunkpapa, Isanyati, Itazipco, Lakota, Mnikawozu, Mnikowoju, Nakota, Ocheti Shakowin, Oglala, Oohenunpa, Sicangu, Sihasapa, Sisseton, Sisitonwan, Teton, Titunwan Sissipahaw: Haw Skagit: Humaluh Skokomish: Twana Squinamish: Swinomish Slotas: Red River Metis Snoqualmie: Sduk-al-bixw Songish: Lkungen Southern Paiute: Numa St.Francis: Abenaki St. Mary's Indian Band: A’qam, Ktunaxa St.Regis Mohawk: Akwesasne, Kaniengehage Stockbridge: Mahican Snuneymuxw: Nanaimo Susquehanna: Susquehannock, Conestoga, Minqua, Andaste |
Taidnapam: Upper
Cowlitz Taos: Tua-Tah, Pueblo Tarahumara: Raramuri Taviwac: Uncompahgre Ute Tejas: Hasinai, Cenis Tenino: Melilema Tequistlatecos: Chontales of Oaxaca Tesuque: Te-Tsu-Geh, Pueblo Teton: Brule, Hunkpapa, Itazipco, Mnikowoju, Oglala, Oohenunpa, Sicangu, Sihasapa, Titunwan Tewa: Pueblo, Nambe, Pojoaque, San Ildefonso, San Juan, Santa Clara, Tesuque Thompson: Nlaka'pamux Tigua: Pueblo, Tiwa, Tortuga Tillamook: Killamuck Timucua: Utina,Acuera, Potano T'it'kit: Lillooet Tiwa: Pueblo, Tortuga Tlaoquiaht: Clayoquot Tlatlasikwala: Nuwitti Tobacco: Khionontateronon, Tionontati Toltec: Chiaimeca Mochanecatoca Tonkawa: Titskan Watitch, Titskanwatitch, Tonkaweya Tsetsaut: Wetalh Tsimshian: Giluts'aaw, Ginadoiks, Ginaxangiik, Gispaxlo'ots, Gitga'at, Gitando, Gitk'a'ata, Gitlaan, Gits'iis, Gitwilgyoots, Gitxaala, Gitzaxlaal, Kitasoo, Kiselas, Kitkatla, Kitsumkalum Tubatulabal: Bahkanapul, Kern River Tunica: Yoron Tuscarora: Skarure, Iroquois, Coree Tututni: Tolowa, Lower Rogue River Indians Twana: Tuadhu Two Kettle: Oohenonpa, Oohenupa |
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Umpqua:
Etnemitane Uncompahgre Ute: Taviwac Upper Chehalis: Kwaiailk Upper Sioux: Sisseton, Wahpeton Ute: Noochi, Notch, Nuciu, Noochew, Yampa, Yamparka, Parianuc, Taviwac, Weeminuche, Wiminuc, Capote, Kapota, Muwac, Cumumba, Tumpanuwac, Uintah, Uinta-ats, Pahvant, San Pitch, and Sheberetch, Mouache, Tabeguache, Timpanogs |
Viejas: Quimi |
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Wampanoag:
Pokanoket Wappo: Ashochimi Warm Springs: Tilkuni Washo: Washeshu Wasco: cathlascos, Galasquo Watlala: Cascade, Katlagakya, Shalala Wea: Eel River, Gros, Kilataks, Mangakekis, Ouiatenon, Pepicokia, Peticotias, Piankeshaw, Wawiyatanwa Whilkut: Redwood Indians Winnebago: Winipig, Ho-Chunk Wichita: Kitikiti'sh, Wia Chitch (Choctaw word) Winik: Maya Winnebago: Ho-Chunk, Winipeg Wishram: Ilaxluit, Tlakluit Wyandot: Huron, Talamatans, Wendat |
Yakama: Kah-milt-pay,
Klikatat, Klinquit, Kow-was-say- Yaqui: Yoeme, Surem, Hiakim Yavapai: Kwevkepaya, Tolkepaya, Wipukepa, Yavape Yazoo: Chakchiuma Yokuts: Mariposans Yoncalla: Tchayankeld Yuchi: Chisa, Tsoyaha Yuki: Ukomno'm Yuma: Quechan, Euqchan |
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Zapotec:
Binigulaza Zia: Tsia Pueblo, Ashiwi Pueblo, Siwin’a, Taa Ashiwani |
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