| medicine dance |
a ritual dance performed by some North American Indian peoples to drive out disease, bring rain, invoke supernatural aid, or the like. |
| medicine man |
a healer, shaman, and spiritual leader, esp. among North American Indians. |
| Micmac |
a member of an American Indian people of Canada's Maritime Provinces. [1/2 definitions] |
| moccasin |
a soft leather shoe or slipper without a hard sole or a heel, made originally by American Indians. [1/3 definitions] |
| Mohave |
a member of a North American Indian tribe formerly living in the Colorado River valley of Arizona and California. [1/2 definitions] |
| Mohegan |
a member of a North American Indian tribe formerly living in the Thames River area of Connecticut. |
| nation |
the members of a federation or tribe, esp. North American Indians. [1/3 definitions] |
| Native American |
a member of any of the peoples who have lived in North, Central, or South America since the time before the Europeans arrived; American Indian. [1/2 definitions] |
| Navajo |
a member of a tribe of North American Indians occupying parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. [1/3 definitions] |
| Nez Percé |
a member of a tribe of North American Indians who formerly inhabited the northwestern part of the United States. [1/2 definitions] |
| Ojibwa |
a member of a North American Indian tribe living in the United States and Canada around Lake Superior. [1/3 definitions] |
| Oneida |
a member of a tribe of North American Indians living in Canada and New York State and belonging to the Six Nations. [1/2 definitions] |
| Onondaga |
a member of a tribe of North American Indians inhabiting the area around Onondaga Lake in New York State and belonging to the Six Nations. [1/2 definitions] |
| Paiute |
any member of a North American Indian people of the Uto-Aztecan group living in the southwestern United States. [1/2 definitions] |
| paleface |
(slang) a white person, as distinguished from an American Indian. |
| papoose |
a North American Indian baby or young child. |
| peace pipe |
a ceremonial pipe for all to smoke during an American Indian peace conference; calumet. |
| pemmican |
a North American Indian dried food made of pounded shreds of meat, melted fat, and often berries, formed into a cake. |
| Pequot |
a member of a former North American Indian people that lived in southern New England until conquered in 1637. [1/2 definitions] |
| Pima |
a member of a North American Indian people living in Arizona and northern Mexico. [1/2 definitions] |
| Plains Indian |
a member of any of the buffalo-hunting, seminomadic North American Indian peoples that formerly inhabited the Great Plains. |