amerindian

Noun
  1. Any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived (synset 109664887)
    associated with: war party - a band of warriors who raid or fight an enemy (used especially of Native Americans)
    is a type of:
    subtypes:
    • algonquian, algonquin - a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast
    • anasazi - a Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings
    • athabascan, athabaskan, athapascan, athapaskan - a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Athapaskan language and living in the subarctic regions of western Canada and central Alaska
    • maya, mayan - a member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture (which reached its peak between AD 300 and 900) characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy
    • nahuatl - a member of any of various Indian peoples of central Mexico
    • olmec - a member of an early Mesoamerican civilization centered around Veracruz that flourished between 1300 and 400 BC
    • zapotec, zapotecan - a member of a large tribe of Mesoamericans living in southern Mexico whose civilization flourished around 300 to 900
    • buffalo indian, plains indian - 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
    • chickasaw - a member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in northern Mississippi
    • coeur d'alene - a member of an Amerindian people living in northern Idaho around Coeur d'Alene Lake
    • creek - any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma
    • haida - a member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska
    • hoka, hokan - a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan languages
    • iroquois - any member of the warlike North American Indian peoples formerly living in New York State; the Iroquois League were allies of the British during the American Revolution
    • muskhogean, muskogean - a member of any of the peoples formerly living in southeastern United States and speaking Muskhogean languages
    • penutian - a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Penutian languages
    • pueblo - a member of any of about two dozen Native American peoples called `Pueblos' by the Spanish because they live in pueblos (villages built of adobe and rock)
    • injun, red man, redskin - (slang) offensive term for Native Americans
    • salish - a member of a group of North American Indians speaking a Salishan language and living on the northwest coast of North America
    • shoshone, shoshoni - a member of the North American Indian people (related to the Aztecs) of the southwestern United States
    • tlingit - a member of a seafaring group of North American Indians living in southern Alaska
    • wakashan - a member of one of the peoples in British Columbia and Washington who speak the Wakashan language
    • south american indian - a member of a native Indian group in South America
    • carib, carib indian - a member of an American Indian peoples of northeastern South America and the Lesser Antilles
    • aleut, aleutian - a member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and southwestern Alaska
    • arawak, arawakan - a member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America
    • eskimo, esquimau, inuit - a member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo (`eaters of raw flesh') but they call themselves the Inuit (`the people')
    • paleo-american, paleo-amerind, paleo-indian - a member of the Paleo-American peoples who were the earliest human inhabitants of North America and South America during the late Pleistocene epoch
    • sannup - a married male American Indian
    • squaw - derogatory terms for an American Indian woman
    same as: native american

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