Re: amerigo/tribal names
sepe@kcl.fi
Wed, 29 Sep 1993 12:37:00 PDT
In <Pine.3.85.9309271015.A710-0100000@carson.u.washington.edu> Anneliese Truame
<u.washington.edu!truame> writes:
>Also, the current names of many tribes are french or other european slurs
>instead of the original names, which usually meant some variation of The
>People. My sister needs a bunch of concrete examples of the differences
>between these sets of names for tribes and she doesn't trust the books
>she's looked in. Can anyone help?
If you're looking for the aboriginal designations of the Amerind/Eskimo
peoples, here are some:
- Eskimo (from Algonkin "eskimantik" = eaters of raw meat) -> Inuit/Yuit/Inupik/
Yupik/-miut etc. = the people
- Athabascan tribes -> Dine/Tinneh/Inde/Ndai/Tena with many variations, all
meaning "the people" (also Tlingit)
- Algonkin tribes -> -iniwak/-iniu/-iniwog/-eiok/-unena/-auag/-wok
etc. meaning "people"
- Yana/Yahi = men
- Arara = men (Karok)
- Iroquois-speaking tribes: -(r)onon = people
- Shoshonean: Nunts/Numa etc. = people
- Lutuamian (Klamath-Modok): Maklaks = people
- Yuman: -pai = people
- Haida = the people
- Otomi: Hiahiu = people
- Yahgan: Yamana = people
- Tanoan: Tiwa/Towa/Tewa = people
- Wakashan (Nootka): -aht = people
- Maidu = the people
- Pomo = the people
- Miwok: Miwu = person
- Cotoname: Estok = people