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Indian| Noun | 1. | Indian - a member of the race of people living in North America when Europeans arrivedAlgonquian, 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 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 contered around Veracruz that flourished between 1300 and 400 BC Zapotec, Zapotecan - a member of 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 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 language 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 villages built of adobe and rock 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 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 western 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') sannup - a married male American Indian squaw - an American Indian woman | | | 2. | Indian - a native or inhabitant of IndiaBharat, India, Republic of India - a republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947 Indian race - sometimes included in the Caucasian race; native to the subcontinent of India Assamese - native or inhabitant of the state of Assam in northeastern India Dravidian - a member of one of the aboriginal races of India (pushed south by Caucasians and now mixed with them) Kashmiri - a member of the people of Kashmir Oriya - a member of a people in India living in Orissa and neighboring areas Panjabi, Punjabi - a member of the majority people of Punjab in northwestern India jawan - (India) a private soldier or male constable | | | 3. | Indian - any of the languages spoken by Amerindiansnatural language, tongue - a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language Na-Dene - a family of North American Indian languages Mosan - a family of Amerindian languages spoken in Washington and British Columbia Arawak, Arawakan - a family of South American Indian languages spoken in northeastern South America 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 | | | Adj. | 1. | Indian - of or relating to or characteristic of India or the East Indies or their peoples or languages or cultures; "the Indian subcontinent"; "Indian saris" | | | 2. | Indian - of or pertaining to American Indians or their culture or languages; "Native American religions"; "Indian arrowheads" | |
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