[PzLdr]

Hell, the 'Sioux' appellation by which we know the Lakota and Dakota comes from a Chippewa word meaning 'snake'. While no one is 100% clear on the origin of 'Apache", it may well come from a Zuni word for 'enemy'. The Navajo, who were enemies of the Apache were originally one of the largest Apache bands. Apaches and Navajo speak a variant of Athabaskan, which means they lived, at some point, in the Pacific northwest.

The sign for Comanche was the wriggling motion of a snake. For Sioux, it was a cutting motion across the throat. For Cheyenne, it was a cutting motion across the forearm. In both instances it signified that tribe's signature corpse mutilation.

There is some evidence that some Eastern Indians, including the Iroquois, and some western Indians, the Sioux for example, may have practiced ritual cannibalism.

Apache legends speak of living in the Black Hills, only to be driven out. The Sioux took the Black Hills from other Indians [the Kiowa], in 1775, or thereabouts. As late as the post Civil War period, they drove the Crow off the Powder River buffalo grounds.

Apache fought Pima, Zuni, Hopi, Yaqui, Comanche and Kiowa. Comanche fought Apache, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Pawnee, Tonkawas, etc. The Sioux and their Cheyenne allies fought Blackfeet, Crow, Shoshoni, Nez Perce, Chippewa,etc. Apaches raised torture to heights only approximated by woodlands Indians. And the Aztecs achieved a 100% mortality rate in their pioneering open heart surgery techniques. Passive? No way in hell!

[Milhous]

Passive? No way in hell!

Washakie and Sacagawea both were Shoshone (Shoshoni, or Snake) - a tribe located in the Snake River region. Local legend says that the town of Crow Heart on the Wind River Reservation got its name when Chief Washakie ate the heart of a defeated Crow rival.

[Antoninus]

Hell, the 'Sioux' appellation by which we know the Lakota and Dakota comes from a Chippewa word meaning 'snake'. While no one is 100% clear on the origin of 'Apache", it may well come from a Zuni word for 'enemy'.

When Cartier arrived at Stadacona (Quebec City) on the St. Lawrence River in the 1540s, he spoke to the native chiefs there and was informed, even then, that they were at war with the "Agojunda" who had killed 200 of their warriors in a fort the previous year. "Agojunda" means "enemy". The identity of these enemies is unknown, but is thought to be either the ancestors of the current day Micmacs or one or more of the tribes of the Iroquois confederacy--assuming it existed at that point.