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Tlingit literally means “the people.” Their language is Lingít. The Tlingit are part of the Na-Dene language family.

Kickapoo comes from the Indian Kiwegapaw, meaning "He stands about," or "He moves about, standing now here, now there."

Yayoi (yah-YOH-i) pottery from around 300 b.c.e. recovered in Northern Kyūshū was expressly designed for the preparation and serving of rice. Rice growing was probably introduced to ancient Japan by seafarers from the neighboring Asian continent as well as by refugees from war-torn China and the Korean peninsula. As a stable and nutritious food source, rice and its cultivation spread rapidly over most parts of Honshū by the end of the first century c.e. During this period, in addition to rice farming, the techniques of iron casting and weaving arose, resulting in the creation of related industries and trading of goods.

The Mi'kmaq (also spelled Micmac or Mi'kmaw), a branch of the Algonquian language family, once lived a migratory life in Nova Scotia, northern New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. Their name, from their own language, means “allies.” The Mi'kmaq were traditionally divided into several clans, each with its own chief and identifying symbol. These symbols were tattooed onto members’ bodies, painted on canoes and snowshoes, and used as ornaments on clothing and jewelry.

The Skagit tribe has always lived along the Skagit River in northwestern Washington State, traditionally in a marine-oriented culture. The tribe was divided into two groups, the Upper and Lower Skagit. The Upper Skagit lived further east, toward the Cascade Mountains, and were more heavily influenced by the culture of the Plateau American Indians to their east. The Lower Skagit lived near the mouth of the Skagit River at Puget Sound. Skagit

The Cupeño, one of the Native American cultures of California, were patrilocal and married outside their kin groups. With no direct access to the ocean, the Cupeño relied on acorns, seeds, berries, deer, quail, and other small animals. They occupied two politically autonomous villages united by trade, marriage, rituals, and language. Clans were headed by men through inheritance; they maintained the clan’s ceremonial dance house and paraphernalia. Ceremonies were concerned with mortuary rituals, world-renewal rites, and an eagle-killing ritual. Cupeño[Cupeno] Agua Caliente

The Tibu were descendants of a group of people who originally lived in the Sahara thousands of years ago. As the Sahara began to dry up, this group of people moved into the Tibesti and Ahaggar mountain ranges. The Tibu were originally a Neolithic hunting culture, but as animals began to disappear from their environment, they became subsistence farmers, living on the fringes of the mountain ranges until historical times. There is evidence that the culture, at least for part of its history, was matriarchal.

The Tutelo were a northern Siouan people who came into the present-day Virginia piedmont from the upper Ohio Valley. The meaning of the name is unknown; it was probably taken from a southern Indian language by the Iroquois. They were also known as Katteras or Shateras. In 1671, English explorers visited a Tutelo village, Shamokin, near present-day Salem, Virginia. By the beginning of the eighteenth century, the tribe had moved itself to an island in the Roanoke River, near the junction of the Stanton and Dan, and shortly thereafter to the headwaters of the Yadkin River in western North Carolina, where they were able to hunt elk and bison. Tutelo

Clans are unilineal descent groups into which a person is born. In a matrilineal society, one is a member of one’s mother’s clan; in a patrilineal society, one is a member of one’s father’s clan. In nearly all societies with clans, the clans function to regulate marriage. Clans may also hold property and perform specific rituals. Clans often have distinctive symbols. Clans

In the Onondaga language, “Onondaga” means “people of the hill.” The main Onondaga village was on a hill southeast of present-day Syracuse, New York. The Onondaga nation was the geographically central nation of the Five (later Six) Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. Therefore, the confederacy's capital was at this main Onondaga village, and the Onondaga were the Keepers of the Council Fire of the confederacy. The main speaker of the council was always an Onondaga, as was the keeper of the council wampum. The Great Council of the Confederacy, which met each autumn and in emergencies, was composed of fifty sachems (chiefs) from the five Indigenous nations. The Onondaga held fourteen of these hereditarily chosen sachemships, more than any other nation. These rules were set down before European contact (estimates vary widely, from the 1300s to the 1500s) by the founders of the Iroquois Confederacy, Hiawatha, and Deganawida.

At the beginning of the historic period, the Chickasaw inhabited an area encompassing modern western Tennessee and Kentucky, northern Mississippi, and northwestern Alabama. They are closely related linguistically to the Choctaw, and the two Indigenous nations may once have been one. The Chickasaw way of life was similar to that of other southeastern nations. They lived in towns and pursued an economy based on farming, especially corn, and hunting. Chickasaw social structure was based on a clan system. One’s clan was derived from one’s mother, and marriage between clan members was forbidden. While most affairs were handled locally, the High Minko, or principal chief of the nation, was chosen by a council of clan elders. Though a relatively small nation (around 4,500 at the time of European contact), the Chickasaw had a reputation among neighboring nations as fierce warriors.