Thesaurus:Native American

Thesaurus

Native American

English

Noun

Synonyms

• American Indian
• Amerind (rare)
• Amerindian (chiefly Latin America)
• First American
• Indian (misnomer)
• Indigenous American
• Indigenous North American
• Injun (offensive, dated)
• injun (offensive, dated)
• Native American
• NDN (slang)
• Red Indian (offensive, dated)
• red man (now offensive, dated)
• redman (now offensive, dated)
• redskin (now offensive, dated)

Hyponyms

• Apache
• Cherokee
• Cheyenne
• Chippewa
• Hopi
• Kiowa
• Lakota
• Navajo
• Ojibwa
• Oneida
• Sioux

Hypernyms

• aboriginal
• aborigine
• autochthon
• indigene
• Native
• native    [⇒ thesaurus]
• person    [⇒ thesaurus]
• person of color    [⇒ thesaurus]
• POC

Holonyms

• First Nations (Canada)

Further reading

• “Indian” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.