Other tribes in Northern Thailand also refer to them by those names.
Indian tribes may refer to:
The tribe refers to the turtle as "Gamera" in their legends.
The Mattabesett and other tribes referred to the Mohegan as "destroyers of men."
The tribes of the Tauranga region refer to the canoe as Takitimu.
The tribes along the river referred to it as baratawani, "the deceitful road," for the Ragora was notoriously changeable.
It must be understood that this small tribe did not refer to itself as the Choptanks; that name would come much later and from strangers.
He could speak the language of the Algonquian Indians though the local tribe referred to themselves as the Pennacooks.
Many tribes refer to themselves with their language's word for "people," while referring to other, neighboring tribes with various epithets.
Some tribes refer to him as Anky-Kele and attribute to him the power over life and death.