This list of traditional territories of the original peoples of North America gives an overview of the names of the indigenous "countries" of North America. In this sense, "country" refers to the name of the land...the ground...the territory ... the homeland of a nation, rather than the name of the nation ("tribe") itself. This article is only about the name for the land of a nation. The distinction between nation and land is like the Polish people versus the land of Poland, the Māori people versus Aotearoa, or the Saami people versus Sápmi (Saamiland).