Meaning | 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. |
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Synonym | Plains Indian |
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Narrower | Arapaho, Arapahoe | A member of a tribe of Plains Indians formerly inhabiting eastern Colorado and Wyoming (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming) |
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Atakapa, Attacapan | A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas |
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 |
Ojibwa, Ojibway, Chippewa | 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 |
Sioux, Siouan | 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 |
Broader | Amerindian, Native American | Any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived |
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