A tribal name is a name of an ethnic tribe —usually of ancient origin, which represented its self-identity.

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Studies of Native American tribal names show that most had an original meaning comparable to "human," "people" "us"—the "tribal" name for itself was often the localized ethnic self-perception of the general word for "human being."

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