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DIRECTIONS: Use library resources or the "This Week in American History" Web site at http://www.americanindian.net/names.html (scroll way down the page for a long list of Native American tribe names) to match each American Indian tribe name with its special meaning. Draw a line from the tribe name to its supposed translation. Find as many matches as you can.
| 1. Pequota | a. wolf |
| 2. Mohegan | b. eastern people |
| 3. Pima | c. great hill people |
| 4. Narragansett | d. fox people (or destroyers) |
| 5. Apache | e. enemy |
| 6. Cheyenne | f. river people |
| 7. Penobscot | g. peaceful ones |
| 8. Hopi | h. it forks on the white rocks |
| 9. Winnebago | i. cave people |
| 10. Menominee | j. people of the small point |
| 11. Paugusset | k. filthy water people |
| 12. Cherokee | l. he stands about |
| 13. Seneca | m. red talkers |
| 14. Wampanoag | n. where the narrow opens out |
| 15. Kickapoo | o. wild rice men |