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1. Adirondack, n. and adj. View full entry 1699
...A member of the Algonquin people formerly living along the Ottawa River and its tributaries, in Ontario and Quebec. Also occas. with the and pl. concord: this people...
2. Ahousaht, adj. and n. View full entry 1791
...Of, belonging to, or designating the Ahousaht, the principal group of Nuu-chah-nulth (see Nuu-chah-nulth) living around Clayoquot Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada....
3. Anasazi, n. and adj. View full entry 1936
...Archaeol. A member of the Basket Maker people, or of their successors the early Pueblo people, of the uplands of northern Arizona, New Mexico, southern Utah, and Colorado, together considered as...
4. Athapascan | Athapaskan, adj. and n. View full entry 1846
...Of or relating to a widely spread people of North American Indians or their language....
5. Beothuk, n. and adj. View full entry 1828
...(A member of) an Indian people of Newfoundland, said to be extinct by 1827....
6. Cherokee, n. and adj. View full entry 1674
...(A member of) an Iroquoian North American Indian people formerly inhabiting a large portion of the southern United States....
7. Dakota, n. and adj. View full entry 1809
...A North American Indian people inhabiting the upper Mississippi and Missouri river valleys, speaking a language of the Siouan stock; a member of this people. Also commonly called Sioux...
8. Haida, adj. and n. View full entry 1841
...Of or pertaining to a North American Indian people living on the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, and on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska....
9. Hohokam, n. and adj. View full entry 1884
...An extinct people of North American Indians....
10. Karankawa, n. and adj. View full entry 1806
...An Indian people of the Gulf coast of Texas; a member of this people; also, their language....
11. Kiowa, n. and adj. View full entry 1810
...An Indian people of the south-western U.S.; a member of this people....
12. Klamath, n. and adj. View full entry 1826
...A Penutian Indian people of the Oregon-California border; a member of this people; also, their language....
13. Lakota, n. and adj. View full entry 1918
...(A member of) a Sioux Indian people of western South Dakota; = Tetona....
14. Macusi, n. and adj. View full entry 1819
...A member of a Carib people inhabiting parts of Guyana, Brazil, and Venezuela....
15. Makah, n. and adj. View full entry 1855
...A member of a North American Indian people, inhabiting Cape Flattery in north-west Washington State....
16. Maliseet, n. and adj. View full entry 1749
...A member of a North American Indian people of Quebec, New Brunswick, and Maine....
17. Mapuche, n. and adj. View full entry 1876
...A member of any of the Araucanian Indian peoples of central Chile and Argentina....
18. Massachusett, n. and adj. View full entry 1616
...A member of an Algonquian people inhabiting an area forming the eastern part of the present-day state of Massachusetts....
19. Menominee, n. and adj. View full entry 1722
...A member of a semi-sedentary North American people residing, at the time of first European contact, in summer villages in northern Wisconsin and Michigan and subsisting by hunting, gathering, and gardening....
20. Modoc, n.1 and adj. View full entry 1854
...A member of a North American Indian people living on the border of Oregon and California. Cf. Klamath...
