English > Native American: 2 senses > noun 1, person | Meaning | Any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived. |
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| Synonym | Amerindian |
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| Category of | war party | A band of warriors who raid or fight an enemy (used especially of Native Americans) |
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| Narrower | Aleut, Aleutian | A member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and southwestern Alaska |
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| Algonquian, Algonquin | A member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally / originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada |
| 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 |
| Arawak, Arawakan | A member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America |
| Athapaskan, Athapascan, Athabaskan, 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 |
| Carib, Carib Indian | A member of an American Indian peoples of northeastern South America and the Lesser Antilles |
| 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 |
| Eskimo, Esquimau, Inuit | A member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia) |
| Haida | A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska |
| Hokan, Hoka | 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 |
| Mayan, Maya | 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 |
| Muskhogean, Muskogean | A member of any of the peoples formerly living in southeastern United States and speaking Muskhogean languages |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Penutian | A member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Penutian languages |
| Plains Indian, Buffalo 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 |
| 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) |
| Redskin, Injun, red man | (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 |
| South American Indian | A member of a native Indian group in South America |
| 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 |
| Zapotec, Zapotecan | A member of a large tribe of Mesoamericans living in southern Mexico whose civilization flourished around 300 to 900 |
| sannup | A married male American Indian |
| squaw | An American Indian woman |
| Broader | person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul | A human being |
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| person of color, person of colour | (formal) any non-European non-white person |
| Spanish | amerindio |
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| Adjectives | Indian, Amerind, Amerindic, Native American | of or pertaining to American Indians or their culture or languages |
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