Terms for "white man"

["Alfred W. Tüting"]

That'what I found here:

http://www.native-languages.org/cree.htm

 >>"Cree" comes from the French name for the tribe, "Kristenaux,"
variously said to be a corruption of the French word for "Christian" or
an Algonquian word for "first people." When speaking their own language
the Cree refer to themselves as Ayisiniwok, meaning "true men," or
Iyiniwok, Eenou, Iynu, or Eeyou, meaning simply "the people" (these
words have the same Central Algonquian root as the Montagnais word Innu).<<

BTW, can anybody tell me why the Cree are called Rabbit People in
Dakota? (Has it to do with a totem animal?) That's what I found here
about this name (referring to the Plains Cree):

http://www.d.umn.edu/~tbacig/mhcpresent/metisprs.html

 >>Some major Ojibwe had specific names according to location:
Missisauga in southern Ontario; Salteaux of upper Michigan; and Bungee
for the Ojibwe of the northern Great Plains. Other names: Aoechisaeronon
(Huron), Assisagigroone (Iroquois), Axshissayerunu, (Wyandot),
Bawichtigouek (French), Bedzaqetcha (Tsattine), Bedzietcho
(Kawchodinne),  Bungee (Plains Ojibwe, Plains Chippewa) (Hudson Bay),
Dewakanha (Mohawk), Dshipowehaga (Caughnawaga), Dwakanen (Onondaga),
Eskiaeronnon (Huron), Hahatonwan (Dakota), Hahatonway (Hidatsa), Jumper,
Kutaki (Fox), Leaper, Neayaog (Cree), Nwaka (Tuscarora),  Ostiagahoroone
(Iroquois), Paouichtigouin (French), RABBIT PEOPLE (Plains Cree),Regatci
(Negatce) (Winnebago), Saulteur (Saulteaux) (French), Sore Face
(Hunkpapa Lakota), Sotoe (British), and Wahkahtowah (Assiniboine).<<

Maybe the answer can be found here:

http://christianmorrisseau.myknet.org/


Alfred




Alfred