Tribes

Best known tribes:



• Tsitsistas ("the people") Cheyenne (from a Sioux Indian word for the tribe, probably meaning "relatives of the Cree.")
• Odawa ("traders") Ottawa, from tribal name (the Canadian city is named after this tribe.)
• Inuit ("the people") Inuit, also Eskimo (from a Cree name for the Inuit meaning either "raw meat eaters" or "snowshoe lacers.")
• Dine'e ("the people") Navajo (from a Tewa word for "planted fields.")
• Dakota ("the allies.") Band names include Sisseton ("marsh dwellers,") Wahpeton ("forest dwellers,") and Yankton ("living far away.") Dakota Sioux ("Sioux" comes from an Ojibwe word meaning "little snakes.")
• Aniyunwiya ("principal people") Cherokee/Tsalagi (from a Muskogee Indian word for "speakers of another language.")
• Ndee ("the people") Apache (from a Zuni word for "enemy.")
• Muheconneok ("Running Waters," name of a river in their homeland) Mohican, or Stockbridge Indians (the name of a town they settled in temporarily).
• Numinu ("the people") Comanche (from a Ute word meaning "they fight with us.")
• Lakota ("the allies") or Teton ("prairie dwellers.") Lakota Sioux ("Sioux" comes from an Ojibwe word meaning "little snakes.")