HyperDic: plains_indian

English > 1 sense of the expression Plains Indian:
NOUNperson Plains Indian, Buffalo Indiana member of one of the tribes of American Indians who lived a nomadic life following the buffalo in the Great Plains of North America
English > Plains Indian: 1 sense > noun 1, person
MeaningA member of one of the tribes of American Indians who lived a nomadic life following the buffalo in the Great Plains of North America.
SynonymBuffalo Indian
NarrowerArapaho, ArapahoeA member of a tribe of Plains Indians formerly inhabiting eastern Colorado and Wyoming (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming)
Atakapa, AttacapanA member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas
BlackfootA member of a warlike group of Algonquians living in the northwestern plains
CaddoA 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
CheyenneA member of a North American Indian people living on the western plains (now living in Oklahoma and Montana)
KiowaA member of a Tanoan people living in the southwestern United States
Ojibwa, Ojibway, ChippewaA member of an Algonquian people who lived west of Lake Superior
PimaA member of the North American Indian people living in southern Arizona and northern Mexico
Sioux, SiouanA member of a group of North American Indian peoples who spoke a Siouan language and who ranged from Lake Michigan to the Rocky Mountains
BroaderAmerindian, Native AmericanAny member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived

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