The "Pinaleño/Pinal Band" (Spanish term: "Pinery People", Western Apache: "Tiis Ebah Nnee"—"Cottonwoods Gray in the Rocks People") of the San Carlos Apache ("Tsékʼáádn"—"Metate People"), one of the subgroups of the Western Apache people and their kin and close allies, the "Hwaalkamvepaya/Walkamepa Band" ("Pine Mountains People") of the Guwevkabaya/Kwevkepaya ("Southern People"), one of the three Yavapai regional groupings were either named after the Pinaleño Mountains or the mountains were named after them (both people used this range as primary source for pine nuts, which have long been a staple food for many Native American tribes).