plains indian

English - Turkish

Definition of plains indian in English Turkish dictionary

ovalar ındian

English - English

Definition of plains indian in English English dictionary

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

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. Any member of various Native American tribes that formerly inhabited the Great Plains of the U.S. and southern Canada. Plains Indians are popularly regarded as the typical American Indians. They were essentially big-game hunters, the buffalo being a primary source of food and equally important as a source of materials for clothing, shelter, and tools. Until supplanted by the white settlers from the 16th century onward, the Plains Indians occupied the area between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains, which includes portions of both the United States and Canada. It is a vast grassland stretching from northern Alberta and Saskatchewan in Canada to the Rio Grande border of Texas. The Arapaho, Assiniboin, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Comanche, Plains Cree, Crow, Hidatsa, Kiowa, Mandan, Osage, Pawnee, and Sioux are Plains Indians

Hyphenation

plains In·di·an

Turkish pronunciation

pleynz îndiın

Pronunciation

/ˈplānz ˈəndēən/ /ˈpleɪnz ˈɪndiːən/