Attacapan

Definitions of Attacapan
  1. noun
    a member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas
    synonyms: Atakapa
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    type of:
    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
  2. noun
    a language spoken by the Atakapa of the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas
    synonyms: Atakapa, Atakapan, Attacapa
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    type of:
    American Indian, American-Indian language, Amerind, Amerindian language
    a dated term referring to any of the languages spoken by Indigenous people in the Americas
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