the land of his people , the hualapai , mojave and navajo , the land of the hopi , the havasupai , the zuni , and utes , the lipan , jicarilla , tonto and mescalero people , the chiricahua , yavapai , kiowa , santa clara , dakota , lakota , oglala , brule , blackfeet and bloods , where once lived the cree , the shoshone , the cherokee and cheyenne , tis-tsis-tas , arra-arra and dine they called themselves , kwakiutl , inuit , haida , maida , alsea , aleuts , athabascans , acoma , ponca , ojibway , sac and fox , pottawatomi , kickapoo , hed learned all their names once a long time ago in legends and myths secretly told , he strained to remember , memory being all that was left of some , a hundred here , a dozen there , and there a name only if only he could remember it : illinois , miami and delaware memorialized , abenaki , pequod , mohegan , micmac , seneca , passamaquoddy , nez perce , multnomah , modoc and miwok , tewa and tiwa , toltecs and tsimshian , wasco , wintu , more there were more , the chinook and cochiti , coos , crow and flathead , okanogan , metis , maliseets and lumni , what did all the names mean ?