Amerindian vs Iroquois

Iroquois vs Amerindian

Amerindian and Iroquois both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Amerindian	Yes	No	No	No
Iroquois	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Iroquois is a hyponym of Amerindian; that is, Iroquois is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than Amerindian:

Amerindian: any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived
Iroquois: any member of the warlike North American Indian peoples formerly living in New York State; the Iroquois League were allies of the British during the American Revolution

Other hyponyms of Amerindian include Algonquian, Algonquin, Anasazi, Athabascan, Athabaskan, Athapascan, Athapaskan, Maya, Mayan, Nahuatl, Olmec, Zapotec, Zapotecan, Buffalo Indian, Plains Indian, Chickasaw, Coeur d'Alene, Creek, Haida, Hoka, Hokan, Muskhogean, Muskogean, Penutian, Pueblo, Injun, red man, Redskin, Salish, Shoshone, Shoshoni, Tlingit, Wakashan, South American Indian, Carib, Carib Indian, Aleut, Aleutian, Arawak, Arawakan, Eskimo, Esquimau, Inuit, Paleo-American, Paleo-Amerind, Paleo-Indian, sannup, squaw, Red Indian.

Amerindian (noun)	Iroquois (noun)
any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived	a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Iroquois
	any member of the warlike North American Indian peoples formerly living in New York State; the Iroquois League were allies of the British during the American Revolution

Difference between Amerindian and Iroquois

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