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
atikamek: 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)