There's some similarity, Q, with the Tsi-Tsi-Tas or Northern Cheyenne, with whom I enjoyed a close relationship, who call the woven willow, hide covered structure �maome... and the one(s) using the lodge are ��manane or, literally, "putting on a sweat". The root word is pronounced somewaht like the beginning of your examples. Although a Plains Indian Tribe for the last 300 years or so, the Cheyenne originated near the Great Lakes and were probably associated with the Ojibwe, also known as Chippewa...