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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
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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
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Athabascan, Athabaskan, Athapascan, Athapaskan
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
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Maya, Mayan
a member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture (which reached its peak between AD 300 and 900) characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy
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Nahuatl
a member of any of various Indian peoples of central Mexico
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Olmec
a member of an early Mesoamerican civilization centered around Veracruz that flourished between 1300 and 400 BC
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Zapotec, Zapotecan
a member of a large tribe of Mesoamericans living in southern Mexico whose civilization flourished around 300 to 900
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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
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Chickasaw
a member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in northern Mississippi
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Coeur d'Alene
a member of an Amerindian people living in northern Idaho around Coeur d'Alene Lake
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Creek
any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma
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Haida
a member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska
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Hoka, Hokan
a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan languages
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Iroquois
any member of the Native American peoples on land that later became New York State; the Iroquois League were allies of the British during the American Revolution
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Muskhogean, Muskogean
a member of any of the peoples formerly living in southeastern United States and speaking Muskhogean languages
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Penutian
a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Penutian languages
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Pueblo
a member of any of about two dozen Native American peoples called `Pueblos' by the Spanish because they live in pueblos (villages built of adobe and rock)
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Salish
a member of a group of North American Indians speaking a Salishan language and living on the northwest coast of North America
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Shoshone, Shoshoni
a member of the North American Indian people (related to the Aztecs) of the southwestern United States
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Taracahitian
a member of a group of peoples of Mexico
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Tlingit
a member of a seafaring group of North American Indians living in southern Alaska
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Wakashan
a member of one of the peoples in British Columbia and Washington who speak the Wakashan language
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Aleut, Aleutian
a member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and southwestern Alaska
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Inuit
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')
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Paleo-American, Paleo-Amerind, Paleo-Indian
a member of the Paleo-American peoples who were the earliest human inhabitants of North America and South America during the late Pleistocene epoch
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sannup
a married male American Indian
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squaw
an American Indian woman
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Abenaki, Abnaki
a member of the Algonquian people of Maine and southern Quebec
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Achomawi
a member of the Achomawi community of northeastern California
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Akwa'ala
a member of the Akwa'ala community in Baja California
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Alabama
a member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in what is now the state of Alabama
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Algonkian, Algonkin
a member of a North American Indian people in the Ottawa river valley of Ontario and Quebec
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Atakapa, Attacapan
a member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas
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Aztec
a member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519
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Toltec
a member of the Nahuatl speaking people of central and southern Mexico
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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
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Arapaho, Arapahoe
a member of a tribe of Plains Indians formerly inhabiting eastern Colorado and Wyoming (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming)
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Atsugewi
a member of a North American Indian people of northern California
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Blackfoot
a member of a warlike group of Algonquians living in the northwestern plains
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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
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Cakchiquel
a member of the Mayan people living in south central Guatemala
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Cayuga
a member of an Iroquoian people formerly living around Cayuga Lake in New York State
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Cherokee
a member of an Iroquoian people formerly living in the Appalachian Mountains but now chiefly in Oklahoma
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Cheyenne
a member of a North American Indian people living on the western plains (now living in Oklahoma and Montana)
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Chimakum
a member of the Salishan people living in northwestern Washington
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Chimariko
a member of an extinct North American Indian people formerly living in California
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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
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Chipewyan
a member of the Athapaskan people living in western Canada between Great Slave Lake and Hudson Bay
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Choctaw
a member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in Alabama
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Cochimi
a member of a North American Indian people living in central Baja California
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Cocopa, Cocopah
a member of a North American Indian people living around the mouth of the Colorado River
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Comanche
a member of the Shoshonean people who formerly lived between Wyoming and the Mexican border but are now chiefly in Oklahoma
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Conoy
a member of an Algonquian people formerly living in Maryland between Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac river; allies of the Nanticoke people
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Costanoan
a member of a North American Indian people living in coastal California between Monterey and San Francisco Bay
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Cree
a member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada
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Delaware
a member of an Algonquian people formerly living in New Jersey and New York and parts of Delaware and Pennsylvania
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Diegueno
a member of a North American Indian people of southern California
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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
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Esselen
a member of a North American Indian people living on the California coast near Monterey
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Fox
a member of an Algonquian people formerly living west of Lake Michigan along the Fox River
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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
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Havasupai
a member of a North American Indian people of Cataract Canyon in Arizona
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Hitchiti
a member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in Georgia; a member of the Creek Confederacy
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Hopi
a member of the Shoshonean people of northeastern Arizona
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Hupa
a member of the Athapaskan people of the Trinity River valley in California
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Illinois
a member of the Algonquian people formerly of Illinois and regions to the west
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Calapooya, Calapuya, Kalapooia, Kalapuya
a member of the North American Indian people of Oregon
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Kamia
a member of a North American Indian people of southeastern California and northwestern Mexico
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Karok
a member of a North American Indian people of the Klamath river valley in northern California
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Kekchi
a member of a Mayan people of north central Guatemala
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Kickapoo
a member of the Algonquian people formerly inhabiting southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois
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Kiliwa, Kiliwi
a member of a North American Indian people living in northern Baja California
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Kiowa
a member of a Tanoan people living in the southwestern United States
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Koasati
a member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in northern Alabama; a member of the Creek Confederacy
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Kusan
a member of the North American Indian people of Oregon
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Kwakiutl
a member of the Wakashan people living around Queen Charlotte Sound and on northern Vancouver Island
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Maidu
a member of a North American Indian people living east of the Sacramento river in California
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Malecite
a member of the Algonquian people of northeastern Maine and New Brunswick
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Mam
a member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala
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Maricopa
a member of a North American Indian people of the Gila river valley in Arizona
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Massachuset, Massachusetts
a member of the Algonquian people who formerly lived around Massachusetts Bay
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Mattole
a member of the Athapaskan people living in northwestern California
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Menominee, Menomini
a member of the federally recognized tribe of Algonquian people living on a reservation in central Wisconsin
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Miami
a member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan
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Micmac, Mikmaq
a member of the Algonquian people inhabiting the Maritime Provinces of Canada
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Miwok
a member of the North American Indian people living in the central Sierra Nevada in California
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Mohave, Mojave
a member of the North American Indian people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona and Nevada and California
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Mohawk
a member of the Iroquoian people formerly living along the Mohawk River in New York State
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Mahican, Mohican
a member of the Algonquian people formerly living in the Hudson valley and eastward to the Housatonic
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Muskogee
a member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in Georgia and eastern Alabama and constituting the core of the Creek Confederacy
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Nanticoke
a member of the Algonquian people formerly of Maryland and eastern Delaware
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Navaho, Navajo
a member of an Athapaskan people that migrated to Arizona and New Mexico and Utah
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Nootka
a member of the Wakashan people living on Vancouver Island and in the Cape Flattery region of northwestern Washington
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Chippewa, Ojibwa, Ojibway
a member of an Algonquian people who lived west of Lake Superior
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Oneida
a member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario
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Onondaga
a member of the Iroquoian people formerly living between Lake Champlain and the Saint Lawrence River
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Ottawa
a member of the Algonquian people of southern Ontario
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Paiute, Piute
a member of either of two Shoshonean peoples (northern Paiute and southern Paiute) related to the Aztecs and living in the southwestern United States
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Pamlico
a member of the Algonquian people formerly of the Pamlico river valley in North Carolina
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Passamaquody
a member of the Algonquian people related to the Malecite and living in northeastern Maine and New Brunswick
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Patwin
a member of the North American Indian people living in the Sacramento valley in California
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Penobscot
a member of the Algonquian people belonging to the Abnaki confederacy and living in the Penobscot valley in northern Maine
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Pima
a member of the North American Indian people living in southern Arizona and northern Mexico
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Pomo
a member of an Indian people of northern California living along the Russian River valley and adjacent Pacific coast
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Potawatomi
a member of the Algonquian people originally of Michigan and Wisconsin
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Powhatan
a member of the Algonquian people who formerly lived in eastern Virginia
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Quiche
a member of the Mayan people of south central Guatemala
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Sac, Sauk
a member of the Algonquian people formerly living in Wisconsin in the Fox River valley and on the shores of Green Bay
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Seminole
a member of the Muskhogean people who moved into Florida in the 18th century
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Seneca
a member of the Iroquoian people formerly living in New York State south of Lake Ontario
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Sahaptin, Sahaptino, Shahaptian
a member of a North American Indian people who lived in Oregon along the Columbia river and its tributaries in Washington and northern Idaho
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Shasta
a member of the Indian people of northern California and southern Oregon
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Shawnee
a member of the Algonquian people formerly living along the Tennessee river
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Siouan, Sioux
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
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Skagit
a member of the Salish people in northwestern Washington
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Takelma
a member of a North American Indian people of southwestern Oregon
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Taos
a member of the Pueblo people living in northern New Mexico
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Cahita
a member of the Taracahitian people of central Mexico
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Tarahumara
a member of the Taracahitian people of north central Mexico
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Tsimshian
a member of a Penutian people who lived on rivers and a sound in British Columbia
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Tuscarora
a member of an Iroquois people who formerly lived in North Carolina and then moved to New York State and joined the Iroquois
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Ute
a member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico
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Wampanoag
a member of the Algonquian people of Rhode Island and Massachusetts who greeted the Pilgrims
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Hualapai, Hualpai, Walapai
a member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona
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Wintun
a member of a North American Indian people living in the Sacramento valley in California
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Yahi
a member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in northern California
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Yana
a member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in northern California
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Yavapai
a member of a North American Indian people of central Arizona
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Yokuts
a member of the North American Indian people of the San Joaquin Valley
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Yucatec, Yucateco
a member of the Mayan people of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico
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Yuma
a member of the North American Indian people of Arizona and adjacent Mexico and California
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Zuni
a member of the Pueblo people living in western New Mexico
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cliff dweller
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