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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
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: blackfeet
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 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
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
yakama: 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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