User:OldManRivers/Indigenous countries of North America

The following is a list of names of Native countries of North America—the homelands of American Indian and Inuitic peoples. Autonymic names in Native American languages are in bold, translations of the Native names are in parentheses and quotes. The Native language or dialect of that form of the country's name is in brackets; for example, [Plains Cree]. Names for that Native country in other languages, such as conventional English names, are in a normal font and indented with a bullet unless only exonyms are yet known to the authors, in which case the exonym (in parentheses) is used as the main entry—such as where only the Abenaki name for "Mahican Country" is yet known.

Anishinaabewaki ("Anishinaabe Land") [Ojibwe]
 * Anishinaabe Country, Algonkin-Nipissing-Mississauga-Ojibwe-Saulteaux-Odawa-Potawatomi Country

Apsáalooke Issawua [Crow]
 * Apsáalooke Country, Crow Country

(Atrakwae [Huron]; the Kahkwa language is unattested])
 * Kakouagoga Country, Kahkwa Country

Benteh ("Among the Lakes") [Tanaina]
 * Dena'ina Country, Tanaina Country

Chahta Yakni ("Choctaw Land/Soil") [Choctaw]
 * Choctaw Country

Chikasha Yakni ("Chickasaw Land") [Chickasaw]
 * Chickasaw Country

(Chontalpa ("The Land of the Chontal") [Nahuatl])
 * Yokot'an Country, Chontal Country

Chicora
 * Chicora Country

(Cuextlan [Nahuatl])
 * Teenek Country, Huaxtec Country
 * Terre des Huastèques [Spanish]

Denendeh ("Land of the People")
 * Dene Country, Northwest Territories Athabaskan Country

Diné Bikéyah ("Land of the People"), Dinétah ("Among the People") [Navajo]
 * Diné Country, Navajo Country, Navajoland

Dus-gaˊ-o-weh-o-noˊ-ga
 * Tuscarora Country

Eeyou Istchee ("Land of the People") [East Cree]
 * East Cree Country, Quebec Cree Country

Gawi Wachi ("The Place of Nurturing") [Tarahumara]
 * Rarámuri Country, Tarahumara Country

Gwe-uˊ-gweh-o-noˊ-ga Haida Gwaii [Haida]
 * Cayuga Country
 * Haida Country

Haudenosauneega, Aquanishuonigy
 * Iroquoia, Iroquois Country

Hopitutskwa ("Hopi Land") [Hopi]
 * Hopi Country, Hopiland

Inokinki ("Illinois country") [Miami-Illinois]
 * Illinois Country

Inuit Nunaat ("Land of the Inuit") [Greenlandic]
 * Inuit Country

Kalaallit Nunaat ("Land of the Kalaallit (Greenlanders)") [Greenlandic]
 * Greenland

Kanién:ke, Kanienkeh, Kanyę̂·ke ("Land of Flint") [Mohawk]
 * Mohawk Country
 * Gä-neă-ga-o-noˊ-ga [an Iroquois language]
 * Annien̈ę (with an n-diaeresis), Agné, Agnée, Agnié, Anié [Huron]
 * Meqewihkuk ("Among the Mohawks") [Maliseet-Passamaquoddy]

Karúk Veezívzaaneen ("Karuk (Upriver) Country") [Karuk]
 * Karuk Country

K'alii-aksim Lisims "Lisims(Nass) River Valley" [Nisga'a]

Kitaskino ("Our [inclusive] Land; Our [inclusive] Territory"), Nitaskinan ("Our [exclusive] land; Our [exclusive] Territory"), Nehirowisi aski ("Autonomous Earth") The earth (aski) where Atikamekw can be autonomous (nehirowisiw). [Atikamekw]
 * Atikamekw Country

Lingít Aaní ("Land of the Tlingit") [Tlingit]
 * Tlingit Country

Lenapehoking ("In the People's Land") and, Scheyischbi ("The Place Bordering the Ocean")  [Lenape]
 * Lenape Country, Delaware Country

(Mahiganek ("At the Mahicans") [Abenaki])
 * Mahican Country

Manahatta ("Hilly Island" or "The Small Island") [Munsee Lenape]
 * Manates Country

Mánu: Yį Įsuwą ("Land of the River (Esaw) People") [Catawba]
 * Catawba Country

Mawooshen, Moasham, Mavooshen and  [Abenaki]
 * Wawenoc Country

Mēxihco [Nahuatl]
 * Mexica Country, Aztec Country

Mi'kma'ki, Migmagi ("Allies' Land") [Micmac]
 * Mi'kmaq Country, Micmac Country
 * Mihkomahkik ("In Mi'kmaq Territory") [Maliseet-Passamaquoddy]

(Msajosek ("The Great Hill") [Abenaki])
 * Massachusett Country

Myaamionki ("Place of the Myaamia (Miami)" [Miami-Illinois]
 * Miami Country

Na:tinixw ("Where the Trails Return" = Hupa Valley) [Hupa]
 * Hupa Country

Ndakinna, N'dakina ("Our [exclusive] Land") [Abenaki]
 * Abenaki Country
 * Aponahkik ("In Abenaki Territory") [Maliseet-Passamaquoddy]

Nēhiýānāhk ("Cree Country"), Nēhiýaw-askiy (" Cree Land ") [Plains Cree]
 * Cree Country

Newe Segobia ("The People's Earth Mother") [Western Shoshone]
 * Western Shoshone Country

Niitsitpiis-stahkoii [Blackfoot]
 * Blackfoot Country

Nitassinan ("Our [exclusive] Land") Refers to Montagnais territory as a whole. Innu Assi (" People Land ") Refers to those lands within Nitassinan that are owned by the Montagnais. [Montagnais]
 * Innu Country, Montagnais Country
 * Muhtaniyewihkuk ("In Montagnais Territory") [Maliseet-Passamaquoddy]

No-wa-mu ("Mother Earth") [Jemez]
 * Jemez Country

Nʉmʉnʉʉ Sookobitʉ ("Comanche Earth") [Comanche]
 * Comanchería, Comanche Country

Nunatsiavut ("Our Beautiful Land") [Inuttut]
 * Labrador Inuit Country

Nunavik ("Place to Live") [Inuttitut]
 * Nunavimmiut Country, Quebec Inuit Country

Nunavut ("Our Land") [Inuktitut]
 * Nunavummuit Country, Eastern Canadian Arctic Inuit Country

Nun-daˊ-wä-o-noˊ-ga
 * Seneca Country

Nuniwar, Nuniwaar ("Nunivak Island") [Nunivak Cup'ig]
 * Cup'it Country, Nuniwarmiut Country

O-nunˊdä-ga-o-noˊ-ga
 * Onondaga Country

Onyota’a:ka’, Onʌyoteʔaˑkaˑ' ("People of the Standing Stone"), Ǫkwehǫwê·ne [Oneida]
 * Oneida Country
 * O-naˊ-yote-kä-o-noˊ-ga [an Iroquois language]

O'odham Jeweḍ ("Land(s) of the People (O'odham)"), O'odham ha-jeweḍga is a more political designation, as in the "O'odham Reservation/Nation". [Tohono O'odham]
 * O'odham Country, Tohono O'odham Country+Akimel O'odham Country

(Osogonek ("Algonquin Place") [Abenaki])
 * Algonquin Country

Panaôbskaiiak ("Land of the Penobscots") [Penobscot (Eastern Abenaki)]
 * Penobscot Country
 * Pan8bskaik, Pana8bskaiiak ("Land of the Penobscots") [Western Abenaki]
 * Panuwapskewihkuk ("Among the Penobscots") [Maliseet-Passamaquoddy]

Paskwāwiýinīnāhk ("In the Plains Cree Country") [Plains Cree]
 * Plains Cree Country

Peskotomuhkatik ("In the Land of the Passamaquoddies (Pollock-spearers)") [Maliseet-Passamaquoddy]
 * Passamaquoddy Country

Pokanoket ("Land of the Bitter Water Bays and Coves") [Wampanoag]
 * Wampanoag Country

S’atsoyaha ("Land of the Sun-fire-people") Email correspondence with Woktela, October 31, 2007: "The Yuchi did not really use a specific name for their country, as they dwelled throughout the Southeast, and considered the whole to be their homeland. They also shared this region with a number of other peoples (as the Indigenous Americans did not own/possess land in the sense that Western Culture views it). Therefore strictly speaking, there was no name for Yuchiland or Yuchi country. It simply would not be a concept that they would have used. The Yuchi saw the whole of this great island as one land which belonged to them and everyone else as well — it seemed at that time more than big enough to share in its bounty.

''The Yuchi, having arrived here by way of island hopping according to some oral traditions, were aware of the surrounding oceans and considered this land to be a giant island. It was generally referred to by the many peoples here as "Turtle Island." In Yuchi that would be S’atsetaha dap’a (Turtle Island) literally: land-water-on-turtle. More often the Yuchi would refer to the Squareground around which their village wrapped as S’a sa he (squareground) and that would have a specific name appended to it, such as Mouse (chixa) for Mouse Squareground.''

''Very likely if they were referring to the region they would have used the generic S’a tso (land-sacred), pronounced s’a cho where there is a pause (glottal stop) between the s and ah sounds. You will note that all these terms begin with the "s’a" which means land or earth in Yuchi. According to other oral traditions, the Yuchi people were created from droplets of the Sun’s blood that fell to earth here in the Southeast, and still colors the clays of the area. The Yuchi word for Sun is tso, and also has the meaning of sacred — hence this would be the sacred-earth-land or the land of the Sun.''

''Lastly the name by which the Yuchi know themselves is "Tsoyaha" which literally means Sun-fire-people. Therefore, a Yuchi today would coin the name "S’atsoyaha" for their land, if they still had any to so name. I know this is not the short and sweet answer you probably expected, but it is the only genuine answer for me to give. I hope this helps your project. Please feel free to post any or all of this.''

''Please note: The Yuchi here is spelled in rough phonetics as their is no orthography for the Yuchi language to be written. --Best wishes, Woktela" '' [Yuchi]
 * Yuchi Country

Shawandasse Tula ("Southwind Earth") [Shawnee]
 * Shawnee Country

Shiwinnaqin [Zuni]
 * Ashiwi Country, Zuni Country

Sq'wayáiɬaqtmš [Upper Chehalis]
 * Upper Chehalis Country

Tatl'ahwt'aenn Nenn'  ("Headwaters People's Country") [Ahtna]
 * Upper Ahtna Country

Tohono ("Desert") [Tohono O'odham]
 * Tohono O'odham Country, Papaguería

(Totonacapan [Nahuatl])
 * Totonac Country

Tsenacommacah, Tsenacomoco, Tenakomakah, Attanoughkomouck, Attan-Akamik ("Activity-grounds", "Land of Much Events") [Powhatan]
 * Powhatan Country

Tséstho'e, Zesthoe (" Cheyenne Land ") [Cheyenne]
 * Cheyenne Country

Tümpisakkatün ("At the Rock Ochre"; Death Valley and vicinity) [Timbisha (Panamint) Shoshone]
 * Timbisha Country, Panamint Country

Wa She Shu E Deh ("Washo Land") [Washo]
 * Washo Country

Waayaahtanonki ("Place of the Waayaahtanwa (Wea)") [Miami-Illinois]
 * Wea Country

Wabanaki [Abenaki], Waponahkik [Maliseet-Passamaquoddy] ("Dawn Land")
 * Wabanaki Country, Abenaki-Maliseet-Penobscot-Passamaquoddy-Mi'kmaq Country

Wolastokuk ("Land of the Beautiful River ( St. John River )") [Maliseet-Passamaquody]
 * Maliseet Country

Wazidja ("The Grand Pinery") [Winnebago]
 * Hotcâk Country, Winnebago Country

Wendake [Wyandot]
 * Wendat Country, Wyandot Country, Huronia, Huron Country
 * Ksitegwiiak ("Land of the Hurons") [Abenaki]

Winthu· Po·m ("Land of the People (Wintu)") [Wintu]
 * Wintu Country

(Yurúk Veezívzaaneen ("Yurok (Downriver) Country") [Karuk])
 * Yurok Country