Editing Endonym and exonym (section)

=== Native Americans ===
The most common names of several [[indigenous peoples of the Americas|Indigenous American]] tribes derive from pejorative exonyms. The name "[[Apache]]" most likely derives from a [[Zuni language|Zuni]] word meaning "enemy". The name "[[Sioux]]", an abbreviated form of {{lang|fr|Nadouessioux}}, most likely derived from a [[Proto-Algonquian language|Proto-Algonquian]] term, {{lang|alg|*-a·towe·}} ('foreign-speaking).<ref>{{Cite web |last=d'Errico |first=Peter |date=2005 |title=Native American Indian Studies – A Note on Names |url=https://www.umass.edu/legal/derrico/name.html |access-date=2020-10-07 |publisher=University of Massachusetts}}</ref> The name "[[Comanche]]" comes from the [[Ute language|Ute]] word {{lang|com-Latn|kɨmantsi}} meaning "enemy, stranger".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sapir |first=Edward |title=The Collected Works of Edward Sapir |publisher=Mouton deGruyter |year=1992 |editor-last=Bright |editor-first=William |location=Berlin |chapter=Southern Paiute Dictionary}}</ref> The [[Ancestral Puebloans]] are also known as the "Anasazi", a [[Navajo language|Navajo]] word meaning "ancient enemies", and contemporary [[Puebloans]] discourage the use of the exonym.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Cordell |first1=Linda |title=Archaeology of the Southwest |last2=McBrinn |first2=Maxine |date=2012 |edition=3}}</ref><ref name="UNCO">{{Cite web |title=Puebloan Culture |url=http://hewit.unco.edu/DOHIST/puebloan/begin.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100709073248/http://hewit.unco.edu/dohist/puebloan/begin.htm |archive-date=2010-07-09 |publisher=University of Northern Colorado}}</ref>

Various Native-American autonyms are sometimes explained to English readers as having literal translations of "original people" or "normal people", with implicit contrast to other first nations as not original or not normal.<ref name=":1" />{{rp|5}}