#North_American_Indian__Indian__American_Indian__Red_Indian a member of the race of people living in North America when Europeans arrived
supertype: Amerindian__Native_American any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived
member of: Amerindian_race
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
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