#Amerindian__Native_American  any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived
  supertype:  person_of_color__person_of_colour  (formal) any non-European non-White person
  subtype:  North_American_Indian__Indian__American_Indian__Red_Indian  a member of the race of people living in North America when Europeans arrived
     subtype:  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
        subtype:  Abnaki.Algonquian__abnaki  a member of the Algonquian people of Maine and southern Quebec
        subtype:  Algonkin__Algonkian  a member of a North American Indian people in the Ottawa river valley of Ontario and Quebec
        subtype:  Arapahoe__Arapaho  a member of a North American Plains people (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming)
        subtype:  Blackfoot.Algonquian__blackfoot  a member of a warlike group of Algonquians living in the northwestern plains
        subtype:  Cheyenne.Algonquian__cheyenne  a member of a North American Indian people living on the western plains (now living in Oklahoma and Montana)
        subtype:  Conoy  a member of an Algonquian people formerly living in Maryland between Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac river; allies of the Nanticoke people
        subtype:  Cree.Algonquian__cree  a member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada
        subtype:  Delaware.Algonquian__delaware  a member of an Algonquian people formerly living in New Jersey and New York and parts of Delaware and Pennsylvania
        subtype:  Fox.Algonquian__fox  a member of an Algonquian people formerly living west of Lake Michigan along the Fox River
        subtype:  Illinois.Algonquian__illinoi  a member of the Algonquian people formerly of Illinois and regions to the west
        subtype:  Kickapoo.Algonquian__kickapoo  a member of the Algonquian people formerly inhabiting southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois
        subtype:  Malecite  a member of the Algonquian people of NE Maine and New Brunswick
        subtype:  Massachusetts.Algonquian__massachusett__Massachuset  a member of the Algonquian people who formerly lived around Massachusetts Bay
        subtype:  Menominee__Menomini  a member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living between Lake Michigan and Lake Superior
        subtype:  Miami.Algonquian__miami  a member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan
        subtype:  Micmac.Algonquian__micmac  a member of the Algonquian people formerly inhabiting the Maritime Provinces of Canada
        subtype:  Mahican__Mohican  a member of the Algonquian people formerly living the Hudson valley and eastward to the Housatonic
        subtype:  Nanticoke.Algonquian__nanticoke  a member of the Algonquian people formerly of Maryland and eastern Delaware
        subtype:  Ojibway__Ojibwa__Chippewa  a member of an Algonquian people who lived west of Lake Superior
        subtype:  Ottawa  a member of the Algonquian people of southern Ontario
        subtype:  Pamlico.Algonquian__pamlico  a member of the Algonquian people formerly of the Pamlico river valley in North Carolina
        subtype:  Passamaquody  a member of the Algonquian people related to the Malecite and living in NE Maine and New Brunswick
        subtype:  Penobscot  a member of the Algonquian people belonging to the Abnaki confederacy and living in the Penobscot valley in northern Maine
        subtype:  Potawatomi.Algonquian__potawatomi  a member of the Algonquian people originally of Michigan and Wisconsin
        subtype:  Powhatan.Algonquian__powhatan  a member of the Algonquian people who formerly lived in eastern Virginia
           instance:  Pocahontas__Matoaka__Rebecca_Rolfe
        subtype:  Sauk  a member of the Algonquian people living in Wisconsin the Fox River valley and the shores of Green Bay
           instance:  Keokuk
        subtype:  Shawnee.Algonquian__shawnee  a member of the Algonquian people formerly living along the Tennessee river
           instance:  Pontiac  Tecumseh__Tecumtha
        subtype:  Wampanoag  a member of the Algonquian people of Rhode Island and Massachusetts who greeted the Pilgrims
           instance:  Massasoit
        instance:  Wahunsonacock__Powhatan
     subtype:  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
        subtype:  cliff_dweller__cliffdweller  a member of the Anasazi people living in the southwestern United States who built rock or adobe dwellings on ledges in the sides of caves
     subtype:  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
        subtype:  Apache  any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico); fought a losing battle from 1861 to 1886 with the United States and were resettled in Oklahoma
           instance:  Cochise  Geronimo
        subtype:  Chipewyan  a member of the Athapaskan people living in western Canada between Great Slave Lake and Hudson Bay
        subtype:  Hupa.Athapaskan__hupa  a member of the Athapaskan people of the Trinity River valley in California
        subtype:  Mattole.Athapaskan__mattole  a member of the Athapaskan people living in northwestern California
        subtype:  Navajo__Navaho  a member of an Athapaskan people that migrated to Arizona and New Mexico and Utah
     subtype:  Mayan__Maya  a member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy
        subtype:  Cakchiquel.Mayan__cakchiquel  a member of the Mayan people living in south central Guatemala
        subtype:  Kekchi.Mayan__kekchi  a member of a Mayan people of north central Guatemala
        subtype:  Mam.Mayan__mam  a member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala
        subtype:  Quiche.Mayan__quiche  a member of the Mayan people of south central Guatemala
        subtype:  Yucateco__Yucatec  a member of the Mayan people of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico
     subtype:  Nahuatl.North_American_Indian__nahuatl  a member of any of various Indian peoples of central Mexico
        subtype:  Aztec  a member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519
     subtype:  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
        subtype:  Atakapa__Attacapan  a member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas
        subtype:  Arapahoe__Arapaho  a member of a North American Plains people (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming)
        subtype:  Blackfoot.Algonquian__blackfoot  a member of a warlike group of Algonquians living in the northwestern plains
        subtype:  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
           subtype:  Aricara__Arikara  a member of the Caddo people who formerly lived in the Dakotas west of the Missouri river
           subtype:  Eyeish  a member of the Caddo people of NE Texas
           subtype:  Kichai  a member of a Caddo people formerly living in north central Texas
           subtype:  Pawnee.Caddo__pawnee  a member of the Pawnee nation formerly living in Nebraska and Kansas but now largely in Oklahoma
           subtype:  Wichita.Caddo__wichita  a member of the Caddo people formerly living between Kansas and central Texas
        subtype:  Cheyenne.Algonquian__cheyenne  a member of a North American Indian people living on the western plains (now living in Oklahoma and Montana)
        subtype:  Kiowa.Plains_Indian__kiowa  a member of a Tanoan people living in the southwestern United States
        subtype:  Ojibway__Ojibwa__Chippewa  a member of an Algonquian people who lived west of Lake Superior
        subtype:  Pima.Plains_Indian__pima  a member of the North American Indian people living in southern Arizona and northern Mexico
        subtype:  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
           subtype:  Biloxi.Sioux__biloxi  a member of the Siouan people of southeastern Mississippi
           subtype:  Catawba.Sioux__catawba  a member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Carolinas
           subtype:  Crow.Sioux__crow  a member of the Siouan people formerly living in eastern Montana
           subtype:  Dakota.Sioux__dakota  a member of the Siouan people of the northern Mississippi valley; commonly called the Sioux
           subtype:  Dhegiha.Sioux__dhegiha  any member of a Siouan people speaking one of the Dhegiha languages
              subtype:  Kansas.Sioux__kansa__Kansa  a member of the Siouan people of the Kansas river valley in Kansas
              subtype:  Maha__Omaha  a member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska
              subtype:  Osage.Dhegiha__osage  a member of the Siouan people formerly living in Missouri in the valleys of the Missouri and Osage rivers; oil was found on Osage lands early in the 20th century
              subtype:  Ponka__Ponca  a member of the Siouan people of the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska
              subtype:  Quapaw.Dhegiha__quapaw  a member of the Siouan people of the Arkansas river valley in Arkansas
           subtype:  Gros_Ventre__Hidatsa  a member of the Sioux people formerly inhabiting an area along the Missouri river in western North Dakota
           subtype:  Hunkpapa.Sioux__hunkpapa  a member of the Siouan people formerly living in the western Dakotas; the were prominent in resisting the white encroachment into the northern Great Plains
              instance:  Sitting_Bull
           subtype:  Ioway__Iowa  a member of the Siouan people formerly living in Iowa and Minnesota and Missouri
           subtype:  Missouri.Sioux__missouri  a member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the valley of the Missouri river in Missouri
           subtype:  Ofo.Sioux__ofo  a member of the Siouan people living in the Yazoo river valley in Mississippi
           subtype:  Ogalala__Oglala  a member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota
              instance:  Red_Cloud
           subtype:  Otoe__Oto__oto  a member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska
           subtype:  Santee_Dakota__Santee__Santee_Sioux__Eastern_Sioux  a member of the eastern branch of the Sioux
           subtype:  Tutelo.Sioux__tutelo  a member of the Siouan people of Virginia and North Carolina
           subtype:  Winnebago.Sioux__winnebago  a member of the Siouan-speaking people formerly living in eastern Wisconsin south of Green Bay; ally of the Menomini and enemy of the Fox and Sauk people
           instance:  Crazy_Horse__Tashunca-Uitco
     subtype:  Chickasaw.North_American_Indian__chickasaw  a member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in northern Mississippi
     subtype:  Creek  any member of the Creek Confederacy of Muskhogean peoples (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma
     subtype:  Haida.North_American_Indian__haida  a member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska
     subtype:  Hokan__Hoka  a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan language
        subtype:  Achomawi.Hokan__achomawi  a member of the North American Indian people of the Pit river valley in northern California
        subtype:  Akwa'ala.Hokan__akwa'ala  a member of a North American Indian people living in Baja California
        subtype:  Atsugewi.Hokan__atsugewi  a member of the North American Indian people of the Pit river valley in northern California
        subtype:  Chimariko.Hokan__chimariko  a member of an extinct North American Indian people formerly living in California
        subtype:  Cochimi.Hokan__cochimi  a member of a North American Indian people living in central Baja California
        subtype:  Cocopah__Cocopa  a member of a North American Indian people living around the mouth of the Colorado river
        subtype:  Diegueno.Hokan__diegueno  a member of a North American Indian people of southern California
        subtype:  Esselen.Hokan__esselen  a member of a North American Indian people living on the California coast near Monterey
        subtype:  Halchidhoma  a member of a North American Indian people of the Colorado river valley near the mouth of the Gila river; allied to the Maricopa
        subtype:  Havasupai.Hokan__havasupai  a member of a North American Indian people of Cataract Canyon (a tributary of the Grand Canyon) in Arizona
        subtype:  Kamia.Hokan__kamia  a member of a North American Indian people of southeastern California and northwestern Mexico
        subtype:  Karok.Hokan__karok  a member of a North American Indian people of the Klamath river valley in northern California
        subtype:  Kiliwi__Kiliwa  a member of a North American Indian people living in northern Baja California
        subtype:  Maricopa.Hokan__maricopa  a member of a North American Indian people of the Gila river valley in Arizona
        subtype:  Mojave__Mohave  a member of the North American Indian people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona and Nevada and California
        subtype:  Pomo.Hokan__pomo  a member of an Indian people of northern California living along the Russian River valley and adjacent Pacific coast
        subtype:  Shasta.Hokan__shasta  a member of the Indian people of northern California and southern Oregon
        subtype:  Hualapai__Walapai__Hualpai  a member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona
        subtype:  Yahi.Hokan__yahi  a member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California
        subtype:  Yana.Hokan__yana  a member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California
        subtype:  Yavapai.Hokan__yavapai  a member of a North American Indian people of central Arizona
        subtype:  Yuma.Hokan__yuma  a member of the North American Indian people of Arizona and adjacent Mexico and California
     subtype:  Iroquois  any member of the warlike North American Indian peoples formerly living in New York state; the League of Iroquois (or Five Nations) were allies of the British during the American Revolution
        subtype:  Cayuga.Iroquois__cayuga  a member of an Iroquoian people formerly living around Cayuga Lake in New York state
        subtype:  Cherokee.Iroquois__cherokee  a member of an Iroquoian people formerly living in the Appalachian Mountains but now chiefly in Oklahoma
           instance:  Sequoya__Sequoyah__George_Guess
        subtype:  Erie.Iroquois__erie  a member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York
        subtype:  Mohawk.Iroquois__mohawk  a member of the Iroquoian people formerly living along the Mohawk River in New York state
        subtype:  Oneida.Iroquois__oneida  a member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario
        subtype:  Onondaga.Iroquois__onondaga  a member of the Iroquoian people formerly living between Lake Chaplain and the Saint Lawrence River
           instance:  Hiawatha
        subtype:  Seneca.Iroquois__seneca  a member of the Iroquoian people formerly living in New York state south of Lake Ontario
        subtype:  Tuscarora.Iroquois__tuscarora  a member of a Iroquois people who formerly lived in North Carolina and then moved to New York state and joined the Iroquois
     subtype:  Muskhogean__Muskogean  a member of any of the peoples formerly living in southeastern United States and speaking Muskhogean languages
        subtype:  Alabama.Muskhogean__alabama  a member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in Alabama; a member of the Creek Confederacy
        subtype:  Choctaw  a member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in Alabama
        subtype:  Hitchiti.Muskhogean__hitchiti  a member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in Georgia; a member of the Creek Confederacy
        subtype:  Koasati.Muskhogean__koasati  a member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in northern Alabama; a member of the Creek Confederacy
        subtype:  Muskogee.Muskhogean__muskogee  a member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in Georgia and eastern Alabama and constituting the core of the Creek Confederacy
        subtype:  Seminole.Muskhogean__seminole  a member of the Muskhogean people who moved into Florida in the 18th century
     subtype:  Penutian.North_American_Indian__penutian  a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Penutian languages
        subtype:  Chinook  a member of an important North American Indian people who controlled the mouth of the Columbia river; they were organized into settlements rather than tribes
        subtype:  Costanoan.Penutian__costanoan  a member of a North American Indian people living in coastal California between Monterey and San Francisco Bay
        subtype:  Kalapooia__Kalapuya__Calapooya__Calapuya  a member of the North American Indian people of Oregon
        subtype:  Kusan.Penutian__kusan  a member of the North American Indian people of Oregon
        subtype:  Maidu  a member of a North American Indian people living east of the Sacramento river in California
        subtype:  Miwok  a member of the North American Indian people living in the central Sierra Nevada in California
        subtype:  Patwin.Penutian__patwin  a member of the North American Indian people living in the Sacramento valley in California
        subtype:  Sahaptino__Shahaptian__Sahaptin  a member of a North American Indian people who lived in Oregon along the Columbia river and its tributaries in Washington and northern Idaho
           subtype:  Nez_Perce.Sahaptino__nezperce  a member of a tribe of the Shahaptian people living on the pacific coast
              instance:  Chief_Joseph__Joseph
        subtype:  Takelma  a member of a North American Indian people of southwestern Oregon
        subtype:  Tsimshian.Penutian__tsimshian  a member of a Penutian people who lived on rivers and a sound in British Columbia
        subtype:  Wintun.Penutian__wintun  a member of a North American Indian people living in the Sacramento valley in California
        subtype:  Yokuts  a member of the North American Indian people of the San Joaquin Valley
     subtype:  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
        subtype:  Hopi.Shoshoni__hopi  a member of the Shoshonean people of northeastern Arizona
        subtype:  Taos.Pueblo__tao  a member of the Pueblo people living in northern New Mexico
        subtype:  Zuni  a member of the Pueblo people living in western New Mexico
     subtype:  Redskin__Injun__red_man  offensive terms for Native Americans
     subtype:  Salish  a member of a group of North American Indians speaking a Salishan language and living on the northwest coast of North America
        subtype:  Chimakum  a member of the Salishan people living in northwestern Washington
        subtype:  Skagit.Salish__skagit  a member of the Salish people in northwestern Washington
     subtype:  Shoshoni__Shoshone  a member of the North American Indian people (related to the Aztecs) of the southwestern United States
        subtype:  Comanche.Shoshoni__comanche  a member of the Shoshonean people who formerly lived between Wyoming and the Mexican border but are now chiefly in Oklahoma
        subtype:  Hopi.Shoshoni__hopi  a member of the Shoshonean people of northeastern Arizona
        subtype:  Piute__Paiute  a member of either of two Shoshonean peoples (Northern Paiute and Southern Paiute) related to the Aztecs and living in southwestern United States
        subtype:  Ute.Shoshoni__ute  a member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico
     subtype:  Taracahitian  a member of a group of peoples of Mexico
        subtype:  Cahita.Taracahitian__cahita  a member of the Taracahitian people of central Mexico
        subtype:  Tarahumara  a member of the Taracahitian people of north central Mexico
     subtype:  Tlingit.North_American_Indian__tlingit  a member of a seafaring group of North American Indians living in southern Alaska
     subtype:  Wakashan  a member of one of the peoples in British Columbia and Washington who speak the Wakashan language
        subtype:  Kwakiutl.Wakashan__kwakiutl  a member of the Wakashan people living on Queen Charlotte Sound and northern Vancouver Island
        subtype:  Nootka.Wakashan__nootka  a member of the Wakashan people living on Vancouver Island and in the Cape Flattery region of northwestern Washington
     subtype:  Aleutian__Aleut  a member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and western Alaska
     subtype:  Inuit__Eskimo__Esquimau  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')
     subtype:  sannup  a married male American Indian
     subtype:  squaw  an American Indian woman
  subtype:  South_American_Indian  a member of a native Indian group in South America
     subtype:  Tupi.South_American_Indian__tupi  a member of the South American Indian people living in Brazil and Paraguay
     subtype:  Guarani.South_American_Indian__guarani  a member of the South American people living in Paraguay and Bolivia
     subtype:  Maraco  a member of the South American people living in Argentina and Bolivia and Paraguay
     subtype:  Quechua__Kechua  a member of a South American Indian people in Peru who were formerly the ruling class of the Inca empire
        subtype:  Inca  a member of the small group of Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors to create the great Inca Empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s
  subtype:  Carib_Indian__Carib  a member of an American Indian peoples of NE South America and the Lesser Antilles
  subtype:  Arawakan__Arawak  a member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America

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