Lost in Translation

The Mohawks, in their own Iroquoian dialect, called themselves "people of the flint" but Mohawk...in Narragansett, [means] "man-eaters," in Unami "cannibal monsters."...The Senecas called themselves "people of the great hill," but the Oneidas called them "bird people" and the Munsees "red-tailed hawks." The Barbarous Years, Bailyn (19)