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    BUFFALO INDIAN

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A member of one of the tribes of American Indians who lived a nomadic life following the buffalo in the Great Plains of North Americaplay

    Synonyms:

    Buffalo Indian; Plains Indian

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    Nouns denoting people

    Hypernyms ("Buffalo Indian" is a kind of...):

    Amerindian; Native American (any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Buffalo Indian"):

    Atakapa; Attacapan (a member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas)

    Arapaho; Arapahoe (a member of a tribe of Plains Indians formerly inhabiting eastern Colorado and Wyoming (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming))

    Blackfoot (a member of a warlike group of Algonquians living in the northwestern plains)

    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)

    Cheyenne (a member of a North American Indian people living on the western plains (now living in Oklahoma and Montana))

    Kiowa (a member of a Tanoan people living in the southwestern United States)

    Chippewa; Ojibwa; Ojibway (a member of an Algonquian people who lived west of Lake Superior)

    Pima (a member of the North American Indian people living in southern Arizona and northern Mexico)

    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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