Native American
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Native Americans
Senses: glosses: A member of some Indigenous peoples of the Americas.
glosses: An Indigenous person of the contiguous United States.
examples: text: His name, as given on the records, was Joe Slater, or Slaader, and his appearance was that of the typical denizen of the Catskill Mountain region; one of those strange, repellent scions of a primitive colonial peasant stock whose isolation for nearly three centuries in the hilly fastnesses of a little-travelled countryside has caused them to sink to a kind of barbaric degeneracy, […] their general mental status is probably below that of any other section of the native American people.
ref: 1919, H. P. Lovecraft, Beyond the Wall of Sleep:
glosses: A resident of the United States who is not an immigrant. (Often uncapitalized: native American.)
Synonyms: word: American Indian
word: Amerind
word: Amerindian
word: First American
word: Indian
word: Indigenous American
word: Indigenous North American
word: Injun
word: injun
word: Native American
word: NDN
word: Red Indian
word: red man
word: redman
word: redskin
Hypernyms: word: aboriginal
word: aborigine
word: autochthon
word: indigene
word: Native
word: native
word: person
word: person of color
word: POC
Hyponyms: word: Abenaki
word: Alabama
word: Apache
word: Arapaho
word: Arikara
word: Assiniboine
word: Atakapa
word: Awaswas
word: Bannock
word: Beothuk
word: Cahokia
word: Cahuilla
word: Catawba
word: Cayuse
word: Chehalis
word: Cherokee
word: Cheyenne
word: Chickasaw
word: Chilcotin
word: Chinook
word: Chipewyan
word: Chippewa
word: Chiricahua
word: Choctaw
word: Chʼortiʼ
word: Chumash
word: Cochiti
word: Cocopah
word: Coeur d'Alene
word: Comanche
word: Coushatta
word: Cree
word: Creek
word: Crow
word: Cupeño
word: Cusabo
word: Dakota
word: Delaware
word: Dena'ina
word: Edisto
word: Erie
word: Guale
word: Haida
word: Haudenosaunee
word: Hia C-ed O'odham
word: Hidatsa
word: Hitchiti
word: Ho-Chunk
word: Hopi
word: Hualapai
word: Hupa
word: Illinois
word: Iowa
word: Iroquois
word: Isleta
word: Iswa
word: Jemez
word: Kansa
word: Karkin
word: Karuk
word: Kaska
word: Kickapoo
word: Kiowa
word: Klamath
word: Koyukon
word: Ktunaxa
word: Kwakwaka'wakw
word: Lakota
word: Lenape
word: Lillooet
word: Maidu
word: Makah
word: Mandan
word: Maricopa
word: Massachusett
word: Menominee
word: Meskwaki
word: Mi'kmaq
word: Miwok
word: Modoc
word: Mohave
word: Mohawk
word: Mono
word: Montagnais
word: Muskogee
word: Nambé
word: Nanticoke
word: Narragansett
word: Naskapi
word: Natchez
word: Navajo
word: Nez Perce
word: Nootka
word: Nuu-chah-nulth
word: Ohlone
word: Ojibwe
word: Okanagan
word: Omaha
word: Oneida
word: O'odham
word: Osage
word: Otoe
word: Ottawa
word: Ouachita
word: Paiute
word: Papago
word: Pawnee
word: Penobscot
word: Pensacola
word: Peoria
word: Picuris
word: Pima
word: Pojoaque
word: Pomo
word: Ponca
word: Potawatomi
word: Powhatan
word: Puebloan
word: Pueblo Indian
word: Quapaw
word: Quileute
word: Quinault
word: Rumsen
word: Sakonnet
word: Salinan
word: Salish
word: Sandia
word: Sauk
word: Sekani
word: Seminole
word: Seneca
word: Shawnee
word: Shinnecock
word: Shoshone
word: Shuswap
word: Siletz
word: Sioux
word: Skidi
word: Snoqualmie
word: Spokane
word: Sts'Ailes
word: Susquehannock
word: Syilx
word: Tahltan
word: Tamaroa
word: Tataviam
word: Tewa
word: Tillamook
word: Tlingit
word: Tohono O'odham
word: Tolowa
word: Tongva
word: Tonkawa
word: Tsimshian
word: Tübatulabal
word: Tuscarora
word: Umatilla
word: Ute
word: Walla Walla
word: Wanapum
word: Wiyot
word: Wyandot
word: Yakima
word: Yamasee
word: Yuchi
word: Yurok
word: Zuni