buffalo indian

Noun
  1. A member of one of the tribes of American Indians who lived a nomadic life following the buffalo in the Great Plains of North America (synset 109669259)
    is a type of: amerindian, native american - any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived
    subtypes:
    • atakapa, attacapan - a member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas
    • arapaho, arapahoe - a member of a tribe of Plains Indians formerly inhabiting eastern Colorado and Wyoming (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming)
    • blackfoot - a member of a warlike group of Algonquians living in the northwestern plains
    • caddo - a group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas
    • cheyenne - a member of a North American Indian people living on the western plains (now living in Oklahoma and Montana)
    • kiowa - a member of a Tanoan people living in the southwestern United States
    • chippewa, ojibwa, ojibway - a member of an Algonquian people who lived west of Lake Superior
    • pima - a member of the North American Indian people living in southern Arizona and northern Mexico
    • siouan, sioux - a member of a group of North American Indian peoples who spoke a Siouan language and who ranged from Lake Michigan to the Rocky Mountains
    same as: plains indian

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