American Indian

A member of any of the peoples indigenous to the Americas except the Eskimos, Aleuts, and Inuits.

American Indian adj.

Usage Note: In principle, American Indian can apply to all native peoples throughout the Americas except the Eskimos, Aleuts, and Inuits, but in practice it is generally restricted to the peoples of the United States and Canada. For native peoples in the rest of the hemisphere, usage generally favors Indian by itself or, less frequently, the contractions Amerindian or Amerind. See Usage Notes at First Nation, Indian, Native American.

American Indian

(Social Science / Peoples) Also called Indian Red Indian Amerindian Native American a member of any of the indigenous peoples of North, Central, or South America, having Mongoloid affinities, notably straight black hair and a yellow to brown skin

adj

(Social Science / Peoples) (Linguistics / Languages) Also Amerindian of or relating to any of these peoples, their languages, or their cultures

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Noun	1.	American Indian - a member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived Indian, Red Indian Amerindian, Native American - any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived 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 Athabaskan, Athapascan, Athapaskan, Athabascan - 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 Amerindian race, Indian race - usually included in the Mongoloid race 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; "Mayans had a system of writing and an accurate calendar" 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 Taracahitian - a member of a group of peoples of Mexico 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 Aleut, Aleutian - a member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and southwestern Alaska 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 - an American Indian woman
	2.	American Indian - any of the languages spoken by Amerindians American-Indian language, Amerind, Amerindian language, Indian natural language, tongue - a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language Algonquian language, Algonquin, Algonquian - family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains Atakapan, Attacapa, Attacapan, Atakapa - a language spoken by the Atakapa of the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas Athabascan, Athapaskan language, Athabaskan, Athapascan, Athapaskan - a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir) Muskhogean language, Muskogean language, Muskhogean, Muskogean - a family of North American Indian languages spoken in the southeastern United States Na-Dene - a family of North American Indian languages Mosan - a family of Amerindian languages spoken in Washington and British Columbia Caddoan, Caddoan language, Caddo - a family of North American Indian languages spoken widely in the Midwest by the Caddo Iroquoian, Iroquoian language, Iroquois - a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Iroquois Kechuan, Quechuan, Quechuan language, Quechua, Kechua - the language of the Quechua which was spoken by the Incas Maracan language, Maraco - the language spoken by the Maraco Tupi-Guarani, Tupi-Guarani language - a family of South American Indian languages Arawak, Arawakan - a family of South American Indian languages spoken in northeastern South America Caribbean language, Carib - the family of languages spoken by the Carib Uto-Aztecan, Uto-Aztecan language - a family of American Indian languages Mayan language, Maya, Mayan - a family of American Indian languages spoken by Maya Siouan language, Siouan - a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Sioux Tanoan, Tanoan language - a family of North American Indian language spoken in southwestern United States Hokan, Hoka - a family of Amerindian languages spoken in California Penutian - a family of Amerindian language spoken in the great interior valley of California

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American Indian

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Algonquian American-Indian language Amerind Amerindian Amerindian language Atakapa Attacapan Buffalo Indian Caddoan Caddoan language Carib Hoka Hokan Indian Iroquois Kechua Maraco Maya Mayan			In this, perhaps, he does no more than any other energetic and imaginative race would do, being compelled to set bounds to fancy by experience; but the North American Indian clothes his ideas in a dress which is different from that of the African, and is oriental in itself. The Last of The Mohicans by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context Yes, like the North American Indian, who was a far nobler type than the Melanesian. Adventure by London, Jack View in context In a war of words, the tactics of the North American Indian. The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose View in context			American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations American feverfew American flag American flagfish American fly honeysuckle American flying squirrel American football American football game American forge American foxhound American frogbit American gallinule American gentian American germander American ginseng American gray birch American green toad American grey birch American hackberry American harvest mouse American hazel American hellebore American holly American hop American hornbeam American Indian American Indian Day American Indian Movement American Indianist American ipecac American ivy American kestrel American Labor Party American lady crab American language American larch American laurel American Legion American leishmaniasis American licorice American lime American lion American liquorice American lobster American lotus American magpie American maidenhair fern American marten American mastodon American mastodont American merganser			American Imaging Management, Inc. American Immigration Law Center American Immigration Law Foundation American Immigration Lawyers Association American Immunization Registry Association American Importers Association American in Name Only American In Vitro Allergy and Immunology Society American Income Life American Income Life Insurance Company American independence American independence American Independence Foundation of Colonial Virginia American Independence, War of American Independent Business Alliance American Independent Cockpit Alliance, Inc. American Independent Insurance Company American Independent Media Manufacturers Association American Independent Network American Independent Party American Independent Party of California American Independent Productions American Independent Refiners Association American Independent Wrestling Federation American Inderpendance American Inderpendance American Indian American Indian Advisory Committee American Indian Agricultural Resources Management Act American Indian Air Quality Training Program American Indian Alaska Native Area Class Code American Indian Alaska Native Employment Program American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association American Indian Alumni Association American Indian and Alaska Native American Indian and Alaska Native Programs American Indian and Alaska Native Summary File American Indian and Native Studies Program American Indian area/Alaska Native area/Hawaiian home land American Indian Bible Institute American Indian Business Development Corporation American Indian Business Leaders American Indian Business Network American Indian Chamber of Commerce of New Mexico American Indian Chamber of Commerce of North Carolina American Indian Chamber of Commerce of Oklahoma American Indian Chamber of Commerce of Texas American Indian Chamber of Commerce of Wisconsin American Indian Child Resource Center American Indian Coalition on Institutional Accountability American Indian College Fund