What were the people called in America before Christopher Columbus came and changed their name?
They were isolated over on this continent, so they called each other by their nations’ names. Sioux, Cherokee, etc, but the native versions. These are the English versions. I’ll see if I can’t find some original pronunciations for you. Okay, Cherokee is actually “Tsalagi.” www.native-languages.org/cherokee.htm The Sioux tribes’ name is (eventually) from the Odawa word for the Sioux, “Naadowesiwag.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sioux The Iroquois tribes may have come from the words “hiro kone” or maybe from “Hilokoa,” it just depends on your view of things. 🙂 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois Anyway, you should just try www.native-languages.org, it has some interesting things on a lot of different tribes.
