How do you say bear in Cherokee Indian?

Answer 1

Before the arrival of horses in the Americas, the tribes of the Sioux had no word for that animal. When they first saw horses they invented a new word that literally means "mystery dog": shunkawakan.

Answer 2

You don't. There is no language called "Iroquois" - it refers to a group of allied tribes speaking different languages:

In Cayuga, a bear is hnyagwai

In Seneca, a bear is nyakwai'

In Oneida, a bear is ohkwa:lí

In Onondaga, a bear is ohgwá:ih

In Mohawk, a bear is ohkwa:ri'

In Tuscarora, a bear is uhchírę'

Answer 3

Well, there are many tribes in the Sioux nation

but consensus seems to agree it is "mato"

Answer 4

Tatonka.

As quoted from Dances With Wolves (1990)

Answer 5

Cherokee: yonv (pronounced yoh-nuh)

Answer 6

The Algonqiuin word for a bear is makwa.

Answer 7

In Lakota it is igmuwatogla