Die
Stämme und ihre Bedeutung
Viele
Stammesnamen bedeuten "Leute," "wir,"
"Menschen," oder ähnliche Wörter. Die Namen folgend sind für jene Gruppen deren Name eine andere Bedeutung
hat. Einige Stammes Namen wurden von Europäern vergeben, um den
eine zweiten Namen für den Ersten zu verwendend Der
"neue Name" wurde soviel verwendet, dadurch gewann er einen
"amtlichen" Status oder wurde der allgemeine Name. In vielen
Fällen sind Stammes- oder Namensursprung in den Nebeln der Geschichte
verloren gegangen. Einige Definitionen basieren folglich auf
Vermutungen der Historiker. In einigen Fällen würden sicher
einige Stammesmitglieder mit den Namen unten einverstanden sein,
während andere Mitglieder es nicht wären. Im wesentlichen ist dieses
eine Liste der allgemein verwendeten Definitionen
|
Stamm |
Europäische Bezeichnung |
Abnaki |
those living at the sunrise (östliche) |
Achomawi |
river |
Acolapissa |
those who listen and see |
Agaidika |
salmon eaters |
Ahtena |
ice people |
Akwesasne |
land where the partridge drums |
Alabama |
I clear the thicket |
Apache |
enemy (Zuni Wor) |
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 Wort) |
Atakapa |
man eater |
Atsina |
white clay people |
Atsugewi |
hat creek indians |
Avoyel |
people of the rocks |
Bayogoula |
people of the bayou |
Bidai |
brushwood (Caddo Wort) |
Brule |
burned thighs |
Caddo |
true chiefs |
Cayuga |
place locusts were taken out, people at the mucky land |
Cayuse |
stones or rocks (Franko-Canadisches Wort) |
Chakchiuma |
red crawfish people |
Chehalis |
sand |
Cherokee |
cave people (Choctaw Wort), people of different speech (Creek Wort) |
Chetco |
close to the mouth of the stream |
Cheyenne |
red talkers (Dakota Wort), little Cree (Lakota Wort) |
Chickahominy |
hominy people |
Chipwyan |
pointed skins (Cree Wort) |
Chitimacha |
they have cooking vessels |
Chontal |
stranger (Nahuatl Wort) |
Choula |
fox |
Chowanoc |
people at the south |
Chumash |
people who make the shell bead money |
Clallam |
strong people |
Clatsop |
dried salmon |
Cocopah |
river people |
Comanche |
anyone who wants to fight me all the time (Ute Wort) |
Coeur d’Alene |
those who are found here |
Crow |
crow, sparrowhawk, bird people |
Dakota |
allie |
Ehdiitat Gwich'in |
people who live among timber or spruce |
Erie |
long tail or cat people (Iroquois Wort) |
Eskimo |
eaters of raw meat (Algonquin or Cree Wort) |
Fox |
red earth people |
Gwich'in |
people who live at a certain place |
Gros Ventre |
big bellies, one who cooks with a stone, he cooks by roasting (siehe Atsina) |
Hach winik |
true people |
Han |
those who live along the river |
Havasupai |
people of the blue green water |
Hidatsa |
willow (Spekulation) |
Hiute |
bowmen |
Honniasont |
wearing something around the neck |
Hopi |
peaceful ones |
Houma |
red |
Huchnom |
mountain people |
Hunkpapa |
campers at the opening of the circle |
Hupa |
trinity river |
Huron |
ruffian (French Wort) |
Hwal'bay (Hualapai) |
people of the tall pines |
Ihanktonwan |
dwellers at the end |
Ihanktonwana |
little dwellers at the end |
Iowa |
sleepy ones (Dakota Wort) |
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 Wort |
Jicarilla |
little basket weaver (Spanisches Wort) |
Kainai |
many chiefs |
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 (genau wie Dakota und Nakota) |
Latgawa |
those living in the uplands |
Lenni Lenape |
genuine men |
Lillooet |
wild onion |
Loucheux |
people with slanted or crossed eyes |
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 |
Michigamea |
great water |
Miniconjou |
planters by water |
Minnetaree |
they crossed the water |
Minqua |
stealthy |
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 Wörter) |
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 Wort) |
Nihtat Gwich'in |
people living together as a mixture |
Nipmuck |
freshwater fishing place |
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 Wort) |
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 |
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 |
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 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 |
Sioux |
snake (Französische Version) |
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 |
Teetl'it Gwich'in |
people who live at the head of the waters |
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 Wort) |
Tubatulabal |
pinenut eaters (Shoshone Wort) |
Tukudeka |
sheep eater |
Tuscarora |
hemp gatherers, the shirt wearing people |
Two Kettle |
two boilings |
Unalachtgo |
tidewater people |
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 Wort) |
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 Wort) |
Winnebago |
filthy water people |
Wiwohka |
roaring water |
Wyandot |
people of the peninsula, islanders |
Yakima |
runaway |
Yamparika |
rooteaters or yapeaters |
Yavapai |
people of the sun, crooked mouth people |
Yoncalla |
those living at ayankeld |
Yuchi |
situated yonder |
Yuki |
stranger (Wintun Wort) |
Yurok |
downstream (Karok Wort) |
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Stamm |
Ein zusätzlicher Punkt: Einige Stämme haben durch falsche Buchstabierung oder Übersetzung einen Namen bezogen, der nicht ihr realer Name ist, noch bestätigen sie offiziell diesen Namen. Jedoch weil er so häufig fehlangewendet worden ist,habe ich die falschen Namen auch aufgelistet |
Abenaki |
Alnonba, Abnaki
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Adamstown |
obere Mattaponi |
Alabama |
Alibamu |
Aleut |
Alutiiq, Unangan |
Anadarko |
Nadaco |
Apache |
N de,Tinneh, Dine, Tinde, Unde, Shis inde, |
Apache Mohave |
Yavapai |
Appomattoc |
Apamatuks |
Arapahoe |
Inunaina, Atsina |
Arikara |
Northern Pawnee, Ricara, Ree |
Assiniboin |
Hohe |
Athapaskan |
Dene |
Atsina |
Haaninin |
Aztec |
Nahua, Nahuatl |
Bannock |
Panaiti |
Bear River Indians |
Niekeni |
Bellabella |
Heiltsuqu, Heiltsuk |
Bellacoola |
Nuxalk |
Blackfeet |
Nitsi-tapi, Piegan, Pikuni (nördliche); Siksika, Sisaka (südliche), Sihasapa |
Blood |
Kainai |
Brule Sioux |
Si can gu |
Caddo |
Adai, Eyeish, Hasinai, Hainai, Kadohodacho, Kadohadacho Confederacy, Natchitoches |
Calusa |
Calos, Carlos, Muspa |
Campo |
Kumeyaay |
Carrier |
Wet'suwet'en |
Catawba |
Esaw, Ushery |
Cayuga |
Kweniogwen, Iroquois |
Cayuse |
Wailetpu, Te-taw-ken |
Chakchiuma |
Shaktci Homma |
Chemehuevi |
Tantawats |
Chetco |
Tolowa |
Cherokee |
Tsa-la-gi, Ani-yun-wiya, Anikituhwagi, Keetowah |
Cheyenne |
Dzi tsi stas, Sowonia (südliche), O mi sis (nördliche) |
Chitimacha |
Pantch-pinunkansh |
Choctaw |
Chakchiuma, Chatot |
Chumash |
Santa Barbara Indianer |
Clackamas |
Guithlakimas |
Clallam |
S'klallam, Nusklaim,Tlalem |
Cocopah |
Xawitt Kunyavaei |
Coeur d'Alene |
Skitswish, Schee chu'umsch |
Comanche |
Detsanayuka, Kotsoteka, Nermernuh, Noconi, Nokoni, Numunuu,Padouca, Penateka, Pennande, Quahadi, Yamparika |
Comox |
Catloltx |
Copane |
Kopano, Quevenes |
Cora |
Nayarit |
Coree |
Coranine |
Coushatta |
Koasati, Acoste |
Cree |
Kenistenoag, Iyiniwok, Nehiawak or Nay-hee-uh-wuk (Plains Cree), Sah-cow-ee-noo-wuk (Busch Cree) |
Creek |
Muskogee, Abihika, Abeika, Hitchiti |
Crow |
Absaroke |
Cuthead |
Pabaksa |
Delaware |
Lenni Lenape, Lenape, Abnaki, Alnanbai, Wampanoag, Munsee, Unami,Unalachitgo, Powhatan-Renápe |
Dieguenos |
Comeya, Tipai, Ipai, Kumeyaay |
Eskimo |
Inuit, Inupiat, Inuvialuit, Yupik |
Fox |
Mesquaki |
Gabrieleno |
Tongva |
Ganawese |
Conoys, Piscataways |
Goshute |
Kusiutta |
Gros Ventre |
Atsina (Prärie), Hidatsa (Missouri), Ah-ah-nee-nin, Minnetaree |
Gwich'in |
Loucheux |
Hainai |
Ioni |
Havasupai |
Suppai |
Hidatsa |
Gros Venture |
Hopi |
Hopitu, Hopitu, Shinumu, Moqui, Hapeka |
Hualapai |
Hwal'bay, Walapai |
Hupa |
Natinnohhoi |
Huron |
Wendat, Wyandot |
Ingalik Athapaskans |
Deg Het'an |
Iowa |
Pahodja |
Iroquois |
Haudenosaunee, Hodenosaunee, Ongwanosionni, Hotinonshonni |
Jemez |
Tuwa |
Jicarilla Apache |
Tinde |
Kalispel |
Pend d'Oreilles |
Kamia |
Tipai |
Kansa |
Hutanga, Kansas, Kanza, Kaw, |
Kato |
Tlokeang |
Keres |
Pueblo, Acoma, Cochiti, Isleta, Laguna, San Felipe, Santa Ana, Santo Domingo, Zia |
Kickapoo |
Kiwigapawa |
Kiowa |
Kwuda, Tepda, Tepkinago, Gaigwu |
Kiowa Apache |
Nadiisha Dena |
Klamath |
Eukshikni Maklaks, Auksni |
Klickitat |
Qwulhhwaipum |
Kootenai |
Kuronoqa, Kutenai |
Koso |
Panamint |
Kutchin |
Gwich'in |
Kutenai |
Asanka |
Lancandon |
Maya |
Loucheux |
Gwich'in |
Lillooet |
Lil'wat, St'át'imc |
Lipan |
Naizhan |
Lower Sioux |
Mdewakanton, Wahpekute |
Lumbee |
Cheraw |
Maicopa |
Pipatsji |
Makah |
Kwenetchechat |
Mandan |
Metutahanke or Mawatani (nach 1837), Numakaki (vor 1837) |
Manhattan |
Rechgawawank |
Manso |
Maise, Mansa, Manse, Manxo, Gorreta, Gorrite, Tanpachoa |
Maricopa |
Xalchidom Pii-pash, Pipatsje, Pee-posh |
Miami |
Twightwis, Twa-h-twa-h, Oumameg |
Micmac |
Mi'kmaq |
Missouri |
Niutachi |
Moapa |
Moapariats |
Modoc |
Moatokni, Okkowish |
Mohave |
Mojave, Tzinamaa, Ahamakav, Hamakhava |
Mohawk |
Kanienkahaka, Kaniengehage, Abenaki, Iroquois |
Molala |
Latiwe |
Mono |
Monache |
Moratoc |
Nottoway |
Mosopelea |
Ofom |
Munsee |
Minasinink |
Nanticoke |
Unalachtgo |
Navajo |
Diné, Dineh, Tenuai, Navaho |
Nez Perce |
Nee-me-poo, Nimipu, Kamuinu, Tsutpeli, Sahaptin, Chopunnish |
Nootka |
Nuu-chah-nulth |
Northern Ojibwa |
Saulteaux |
Ogallala |
Okandanda |
Ojibwa |
Chippewa, Anishinabe, Missisauga, Saginaw |
Okanagon |
Isonkuaili |
Oneida |
Iroquois |
Onondaga |
Iroquois |
Osage |
Wa-Shah-She, Wakon, Wazhazhe |
Ottawa |
Adawe |
Otto |
Chewaerae |
Oulaouaes |
Necariages |
Parianuc |
White River Utes |
Paiute |
Numa, Nuwuvi, Kuyuiticutta |
Papagos |
Tohono O'odham, Ak-chin, Yohono Au'autam |
Passamaquoddy |
Peskedemakddi |
Patchogue |
Unkechaug |
Pawnee |
Pariki, Panyi, Chahiksichahiks, Ckirihki Kuruuriki, Awah.i |
Pecos |
Pueblos from Jemez |
Pend d'Oreilles |
Kalispel |
Penobscot |
Pannawanbskek, Penaubsket |
Petun |
Khionontateronon, Tionontati |
Piegan |
Blood, Kainai, Pikuni, Pigunni |
Pima |
Onk Akimel Au-authm, Tohono O'odham, A-atam |
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