Native American vs Haida

Haida vs Native American

Native American and Haida both are nouns.

Native American is an adjective but Haida is not an adjective.

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

As nouns, Haida is a hyponym of Native American; that is, Haida is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than Native American:

Native American: any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived
Haida: a member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska

Other hyponyms of Native American include Algonquian, Algonquin, Anasazi, Athabascan, Athabaskan, Athapascan, Athapaskan, Maya, Mayan, Nahuatl, Olmec, Zapotec, Zapotecan, Buffalo Indian, Plains Indian, Chickasaw, Coeur d'Alene, Creek, Hoka, Hokan, Iroquois, 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.

Native American (noun)	Haida (noun)
any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived	the Na-Dene language of the Haida
	a member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska

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

Difference between Native American and Haida

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