Plains Indian

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.

Plains Indian

noun

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

Example Sentences

A Plains Indian without a horse to ride is as helpless as a child.

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Russell was the greatest painter that ever painted a range man, a range cow, a range horse or a Plains Indian.

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Whether fiction or nonfiction, as claimed by the author, this book realizes the relationships between Plains Indian and buffalo.

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