| Name | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| Hach 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 |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| Machapunga: | bad dust |
| Mahican: | wolf (incorrect translation per the Mohican Nation, Stockbridge-Munsee Band) |
| Makah: | cape people or people who live by the rocks and seagulls |
| Malahat: | infested with caterpillars, place where one gets bait |
| Maliseet: | broken talkers |
| 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, coward or man eater (Abenaki words) |
| Mohegan: | wolf |
| Mohican: | the people of the waters that are never still |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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, 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) |
| Zia: | scattered hills place |
| Zuni: | rock slide pueblo |
Alligewi or Alleghanys, a people appearing in Delaware tradition who were perhaps identical with this tribe. Ani'-Kitu'hwagi, own name, from one of their most important ancient settlements, and extended by Algonquian tribes to the whole. Ani'-Yun'-wiya', own name, meaning "real people." Baniatho, Arapaho name (Gatschet, MS., B.A.E.). Entari ronnon, Wyandot name, meaning "mountain people." Manteran Catawba name, meaning "coming out of the ground." Ochie'tari-ronnon, a Wyandot name. Oyata' ge'ronon, Iroquois name, meaning "inhabitants of the cave country." Shanaki, Gaddo name. Shannakiak, Fox name (Gatschet, Fox MS., B. A. E.). Talligewi, Delaware name (in Walam Olum), see Alligewi. Tcaike, Tonkawa name. Tcerokieco, Wichita name. Uwatayo-rono, Wyandot name, meaning "cave people."
| Name | Alternate Names |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Alabama: | Alibamu |
| Aleut: | Alutiiq, Unangan |
| 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 |
| Assiniboin: | Hohe, Hohe Nakota, Assinipwat, Stoneys |
| Atakapa: | Ishaks |
| 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: | Niitsitapi, Nitsi-tapi, Piegan, Ahpikuni, Pikuni (northern); Siksika, Sisaka (southern), Sihasapa, Ahkainah |
| Blood: | Kainai, Ahkainah |
| Boothroyd: | Chomok |
| Brule Sioux: | Si can gu |
| 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-staestse, Sotaae'o, Sutai |
| 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: | S'klallam, Nusklaim, Tlalem |
| Cochiti: | Kotyete, Pueblo |
| Cocopah: | Xawitt Kunyavaei |
| Coeur d'Alene: | Skitswish, Schee chu'umsch, Schitsu'umsh |
| 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-wuk (bush Cree), Naskapi, Montagnais, Attikamekw |
| 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-Renápe, Turkey |
| Dieguenos: | Comeya, Tipai, Ipai, Kumeyaay |
| Ditidaht: | Nitinaht |
| Eskimo: | Inuit, Inupiat, Inuvialuit, Yupik, Alutiiq |
| Equimalt: | Is-Whoy-Malth |
| Fox: | Mesquaki, Meskwaki, Mshkwa'kiitha , Outagami |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Kutchin: | Gwich'in, Dindjié |
| Kutenai: | Asanka, Kootenay |
| Laguna: | Pokwindiwe Onwi, Pueblo |
| Lakota: | Hunkpapa, Itazipco, Miniconjou, Oglala, Ooinunpa, Sicangu, Sihasapa, Teton |
| Lancandon: | Maya, Hach Winik |
| 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 |
| Maicopa: | Xalychidom Piipaash, Pipatsji |
| Makah: | Kwenetchechat, Kwi-dai-da'ch, Kwih-dich-chuh-ahtx |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Quapaw: | Quapah, Akansea, Arkansas, Ouaguapas, Ugakhpa |
| Quechan: | Yuma, Kwtsan |
| Quileute: | Quil-leh-ute |
| Quinault: | Qui-nai-elts |
| Ramaytush: | San Francisco, Ohlone |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Serrano: | Cowangachem, Mohineyam, Qawishwallanavetum, Yuhavitam |
| Shawnee: | Savannah, Chillicothe, Hathawekela, Mequachake, Pekowi, Piqua |
| Shoshone: | Shoshoni, Snake, Nimi, Tukudeka, Agaidika, Wihinaitti, Kammedeka, Lemhi, Pohogwe, 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 |
| 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 |
| Wampanoag: | Pokanoket |
| Wappo: | Ashochimi |
| Warm Springs: | Tilkuni |
| Washo: | Washeshu |
| Wasco: | Galasquo |
| Watlala: | Katlagakya |
| 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-ee, Li-ay-was, Ochechotes, Pakiutlema, Palouse, Palus, Pisquouse, Se-ap-cat, Shyiks, Skin-pah, Waptailmin, Wenatshapam, Wish-ham, Yakima |
| Yaqui: | Yoeme, Surem, Hiakim |
| Yavapai: | Kwevkepaya, Tolkepaya, Wipukepa, Yavape |
| Yazoo: | Chakchiuma |
| Yokuts: | Mariposans |
| Yoncalla: | Tchayankeld |
| Yuchi: | Chisa, Tsoyaha |
| Yuki: | Ukomno'm |
| Yuma: | Quechan, Euqchan |
| Zapotec: | Binigulaza |
| Zia: | Tsia, Pueblo |
| Zuni: | Ashiwi, Pueblo, Siwin’a, Taa Ashiwani |
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