Plains Indian

American  

noun

1. a member of any of the American Indian tribes, as those of the Algonquian, Athabascan, Caddoan, Kiowa, Siouan, or Uto-Aztecan linguistic families, that formerly inhabited the Great Plains. All were more or less nomadic, following the buffalo, and were often in touch with one another so that the development among them of common culture traits is noticeable.

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Plains Indian British  

noun

1. a member of any of the North American Indian peoples formerly living in the Great Plains of the US and Canada

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Example Sentences

She made her feature film debut in 2012's Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian, which starred Benicio del Toro.

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2024

Additional troop deployment has also taken place at Demchok and Depsang Plains, Indian media reports say.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2021

Other African Americans served as “buffalo soldiers” in the Plains Indian wars, and formerly enslaved “Exodusters” found land in Kansas when conditions in the Reconstruction South became too threatening.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Departing from the fair’s prevailing European and American Modernism, Ellis presents a captivating show of Plains Indian Ledger drawings, a genre that flourished from the 1860s to the 1920s.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2016

It was with that that I was identified from my youth to my middle age, and in the time I spent on the Plains, Indian warfare reached its greatest severity and its highest development.

From An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) by Buffalo Bill