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American Indian
American Indian
noun
- Also calledNative American a member of any of the indigenous peoples of North, Central, or South America, esp those of North America
adjective
- AlsoAmerindian of or relating to any of these peoples, their languages, or their cultures
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Word History and Origins
Origin of American Indian1
Example Sentences
I mean it's profiling, but then I've got kicked out of three bars for being an American Indian.
Brando's later, somewhat disoriented, support for the militant American Indian Movement was the last straw for his critics.
On another occasion we find an American Indian preaching in the pulpit—a novelty in 1767.
The North American Indian appears to have been, when first discovered, wholly without any distinct religious faith.
It is the period of the assumption of the three-pointed blanket, the true toga of the North American Indian.
From this place has the North American Indian ever obtained material for his pipe, and from no other spot.
It cannot be said that the religious sense was exceptionally strong in the mind of the North American Indian.
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