Athabascan vs Native American

Native American vs Athabascan

Athabascan and Native American both are nouns.

Athabascan is not an adjective while Native American is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Athabascan	Yes	No	No	No
Native American	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, Native American is a hypernym of Athabascan; that is, Native American is a word with a broader meaning than Athabascan:

Athabascan: a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Athapaskan language and living in the subarctic regions of western Canada and central Alaska
Native American: any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived

Other hypernyms of Athabascan include Amerindian.

Athabascan (noun)	Native American (noun)
a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir)	any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived
a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Athapaskan language and living in the subarctic regions of western Canada and central Alaska

Athabascan (adjective)	Native American (adjective)
	of or pertaining to Native Americans or their culture or languages

Difference between Athabascan and Native American

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