American Indian
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
American Indian
▶noun a member of any of the groups of indigenous peoples of North, Central, and South America, especially those of North America.
usage: The term American Indian has been steadily replaced in the US by the term Native American, especially in official contexts; American Indian is still widespread in general use even in the US, however, and is not normally regarded as offensive by American Indians themselves.
'American Indian' also found in these Oxford entries:
Abnaki
- Algonquian
- Algonquin
- Amerindian
- Anasazi
- Apache
- Arapaho
- Araucanian
- Athabaskan
- Aymara
- Aztec
- Blackfoot
- Blood
- bonnet
- brave
- caboclo
- Caddoan
- calumet
- Cayuga
- Cayuse
- Cherokee
- Cheyenne
- Chickasaw
- Chinook
- Choctaw
- Chumash
- Comanche
- Cree
- Creek
- Crow
- Dakota
- Delaware
- Dene
- First Nation
- flathead
- Guarani
- Haida
- hatchet
- Hokan
- Inca
- Indian
- Iroquois
- Kickapoo
- Klamath
- Kuna
- Kwakiutl
- Lakota
- lodge
- Mahican
