#native american

• Algonquin — 1. A person belonging to the Algonquin Native American ethnic group indigenous to eastern Canada and the northeastern United States. 2. Pertaining to these populations, their culture, traditions, or languages within the large Algonquian linguistic family. As an adjective, it describes elements of indigenous identity, mythological structures, and idioms spoken historically in the Great Lakes region.
• Algonquin — 1. A female person belonging to the Algonquin Native American ethnic group. 2. The Algonquin language; a polysynthetic indigenous idiom spoken by native populations in eastern Canada. 3. The feminine form of the adjective 'algonkin'; pertaining to these tribes, their culture, beliefs, or traditional social structures.
• Amerindian — Belonging to the indigenous or native populations of the American continent (excluding Eskimos and Aleuts), relating to their history, culture, languages, or civilization; a person who belongs to one of these original populations. In a structural historical and anthropological sense, it defines the pre-Columbian communities and their direct descendants integrated into modern American states.
• Amerindian woman — A woman who belongs to an indigenous or native population of the American continent (excluding Eskimo-Aleut communities). This common ethnic noun designates a female representative of the autochthonous pre-Columbian communities or their direct descendants who maintain their structural identity and traditional cultural bonds.
• Apache — A member of a group of indigenous tribes from North America (Apache), historically recognized for their warrior skills; in a pejorative and European sense (originating from early 20th-century Parisian jargon), the term designates a street bandit, pickpocket, outlaw, or dangerous ruffian operating in urban environments.