Achomawi: river

Acolapissa: those who listen and see

Ahtena: ice people

Akwesasne: land where the partridge drums

Alabama: i clear the thicket

Apache: enemy

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

Atakapa: man eater

Atsina: white clay people

Atsugewi: hat creek
indians

Avoyel: people of the rocks

Bayogoula: people of the bayou

Bidai: brushwood

Brule: burned thighs

Caddo: true chiefs

Cayuga: place locusts were taken out

Cayuse: stones or rocks

Chakchiuma: red crawfish people

Chehalis: sand

Cherokee: cave people (choctaw word)

Chetco: close to the mouth of the stream

Cheyenne: red talkers

Chickahominy: hominy people

Chipwyan: pointed skins

Chitimacha: they have cooking vessels

Chontal: stranger

Choula: fox

Chowanoc: people at the south

Chumash: people who make the shell bead money

Clallam: strong people

Clatsop: dried salmon

Crow: crow, sparrowhawk, bird people

Erie: log tail or cat people

Fox: red earth people

Gros ventre: big bellies, one who cooks with a stone

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

Houma: red

Huchnom: mountain people

Hunkpapa: campers at the opening of the circle

Hupa: trinity river

Hwal'bay (hualapai): people of the tall pines

Ihanktonwan: dwellers at the end

Ihanktonwana: little dwellers at the end

Iowa: sleepy ones

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

Jicarilla: little basket weaver (spanish word)

Kan-hatki: white earth

Kanienkahaka: people of the place of flint

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

Kutcha-kutchin: those who live on the flats

Kwuda: people coming out

Lakota friend or ally

Latgawa: those living in the uplands

Lenni lenape: genuine men

Lillooet: wild onion

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

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

Man eater

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

Nipmuck: freshwater fishing place

Nooksack: mountain men

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

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

Pascagoula: bread people

Passamaquoddy: plenty of pollock

Paugusset: where the narrows open out

Pawnee: horn people, men of men, look like wolves

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

Pilthlako: big swamp

Pima: river people

Pojoaque: drinking place

Potawatomi: people of the place of the fire, keepers of the fire,

Powhatan: falls in a current of water

Pshwanwapam: stony ground

Puyallup: shadow

Quapaw: downstream people

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 or breakaway,peninsula people

Seneca: place of stone, people of the standing rock, great hill people

Shawnee: south or southerners

Sihasapa sioux: blackfeet

Siksika: blackfeet

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

Tangipahoa: corn gatherers

Tantawats: southern men

Tatsanottine: people of the copper water

Tawakoni: river bend among red hills

Tejas: friendly

Tennuth-ketchin: middle people

Tewa: moccasins

Thlingchadinne: dog-flank people

Titonwan: dwellers of the plains

Tonawanda: confluent stream

Tonkawa: they all stay together

Tsattine: lives among the beavers

Tsetsaut: people of the interior

Tubatulabal: pinenut eaters

Tuscarora: hemp gatherers, the shirt wearing people

two kettle: two boilings

Unalachtgo: tidewater people

Vunta-ketchin: those who live among the lakes

Wahpekute: shooters amoung the leaves

Wahpetonwan: dwellers amoung the leaves

Wailaki: north language

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

Winnebago: filthy water people

Wiwohka: roaring water

Yakima: runaway

Yavapai: people of the sun, crooked mouth people

Yoncalla: those living at ayankeld

Yuchi: situated yonder

Yuki: stranger

Yrok: downstream