aborigine |
an original or first inhabitant of an area, esp. a member of a tribe native to Australia. [1/2 definitions] |
Apache |
any member of a formerly nomadic North American Indian tribe chiefly inhabiting the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. [1/2 definitions] |
Arapaho |
a member of a North American Indian tribe that formerly lived in the western plains from Texas and New Mexico to Canada, and now lives in Oklahoma and Wyoming. [2 definitions] |
Bedouin |
any tribe or member of a tribe of Arab nomads living in the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula, Syria, or North Africa. [1/2 definitions] |
Blackfoot |
a member of an Algonquian Indian tribe formerly resident in Montana, Alberta, and Saskatchewan. [2 definitions] |
bushman |
(cap.) a member of a nomadic aboriginal tribe of southwest Africa. [1/2 definitions] |
cacique |
in parts of Latin America, esp. formerly, the chief of an Indian clan or tribe. [1/3 definitions] |
Catawba |
a member of a North American Indian tribe of South Carolina. [2/3 definitions] |
Cayuga |
a member of a tribe of North American Indians that formerly lived near Cayuga and Seneca Lakes in upstate New York, and that belongs to the Six Nations. [2 definitions] |
Cayuse |
a member of a tribe of Indians that formerly lived in northeast Oregon. [1/3 definitions] |
Cherokee |
a member of a North American Indian tribe that formerly lived in the southeastern United States, and now is mostly in Oklahoma and North Carolina. [2 definitions] |
Cheyenne |
a member of an American Indian tribe that now lives in Montana and Oklahoma. [2/3 definitions] |
Chickasaw |
a member of a tribe of North American Indians originally of Mississippi, now in Oklahoma. [2 definitions] |
chieftain |
a leader of a clan or tribe. |
Chinook |
a member of a North American Indian tribe of the Columbia River region. [2/3 definitions] |
Comanche |
a member of a tribe of North American Indians now living in Oklahoma. [2 definitions] |
Cree |
a member of a North American Indian tribe of the central Canadian provinces. [2 definitions] |
Crow |
a tribe or member of a tribe of a North American Indian people now living in eastern Montana. [1/2 definitions] |
Delaware |
a member of an American Indian tribe that formerly lived near the central Atlantic coast. [2/3 definitions] |
elder1 |
an older person who has authority, as in a tribe or clan. [1/7 definitions] |
endogamy |
marriage within one's own class, clan, caste, tribe, or other social unit. (Cf. exogamy.) [1/2 definitions] |