Definitions of Plains Indian
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a member of one of the tribes of American Indians who lived a nomadic life following the buffalo in the Great Plains of North Americasynonyms: Buffalo Indiantypes:Atakapa, Attacapana member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and TexasArapaho, Arapahoea member of a tribe of Plains Indians formerly inhabiting eastern Colorado and Wyoming (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming)Blackfoota member of a warlike group of Algonquians living in the northwestern plainsCaddoa 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 TexasCheyennea member of a North American Indian people living on the western plains (now living in Oklahoma and Montana)Kiowaa member of a Tanoan people living in the southwestern United StatesPimaa member of the North American Indian people living in southern Arizona and northern MexicoSiouan, Siouxa member of a group of North American Indian peoples who spoke a Siouan language and who ranged from Lake Michigan to the Rocky MountainsAricara, Arikaraa member of the Caddo people who formerly lived in the Dakotas west of the Missouri riverBiloxia member of the Siouan people of southeastern MississippiCatawbaa member of the Siouan people formerly living in the CarolinasCrowa member of the Siouan people formerly living in eastern MontanaDakotaa member of the Siouan people of the northern Mississippi valley; commonly called the SiouxDhegihaany member of a Siouan people speaking one of the Dhegiha languagesEyeisha member of the Caddo people of northeastern TexasGros Ventre, Hidatsaa member of the Sioux people formerly inhabiting an area along the Missouri river in western North DakotaKichaia member of a Caddo people formerly living in north central TexasMissouria member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the valley of the Missouri river in MissouriOfoa member of the Siouan people living in the Yazoo river valley in MississippiOto, Otoea member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in NebraskaPawneea member of the Pawnee nation formerly living in Nebraska and Kansas but now largely in OklahomaLakota, Teton, Teton Dakota, Teton Siouxa member of the large western branch of Sioux people which was made up of several groups that lived on the plainsTuteloa member of the Siouan people of Virginia and North CarolinaWichitaa member of the Caddo people formerly living between Kansas and central TexasWinnebagoa 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 peopletype of:American Indian, Red Indiana dated term referring to the Indigenous people of North, Central, and South America
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