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Plains Indian

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Noun

1. buffalo indian, plains indian

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

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Plains Indian

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noun
a member of any of the Native American peoples formerly living in the Great Plains of the US and Canada

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Plains Indian

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a member of any of the North American Indian peoples formerly inhabiting the Great Plains: they were of various linguistic stocks but shared certain cultural traits, such as the nomadic following of bison herds

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Plains Indian

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n.
A member of any of the Native American peoples inhabiting the Great Plains of the United States and Canada. The Plains Indians spoke a variety of unrelated languages but shared certain cultural features such as nomadic buffalo hunting, the use of conical tepees, and a reliance on the horse in hunting and warfare.

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