Indigenous peoples of the Americas

Red Indian

n & adj

(Social Science / Peoples) another name, now considered offensive, for American Indian

[see redskin]

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Noun

Red Indian - a member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived

American Indian, 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

derogation, disparagement, depreciation - a communication that belittles somebody or something

Translations

Red Indian n (offensive) → pellerossa m/f

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