Iroquois in ancient times, settling in the backcountry of the Southeast United States, including what is now Tennessee. In 2010, more than 45,000 enrolled Six Nations people lived in Canada, and about 80,000 in the United States. The most common name for the confederacy, Iroquois, is of somewhat obscure origin. The first time it appears in writing is in the account of Samuel de Champlain of his journey to Tadoussac in 1603, where it occurs as "Irocois". Other spellings appearing in the earliest sources include "Erocoise", "Hiroquois", "Hyroquoise", "Irecoies", "Iriquois", "Iroquaes", "Irroquois", and "Yroquois", as the French transliterated the term into
Shina (word) Shina (word) The Sanskrit word ' ( ), meaning China, was transcribed into various forms including (), (), () and (). Thus, the term "Shina" was initially created as a transliteration of "Cina", and this term was in turn brought to Japan with the spread of Chinese Buddhism. Traditional etymology holds that the Sanskrit name, like Middle Persian "Čīn" and Latin "Sina", derives from the Qin state or dynasty (, Old Chinese: ') which ruled China in 221–206 BC, and so "Shina" is a return of "Qin" to Chinese in a different form. The Sanskrit term for China eventually spread