Native American vs Plains Indian

Plains Indian vs Native American

Native American and Plains Indian both are nouns.

Native American is an adjective but Plains Indian is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Native American	Yes	Yes	No	No
Plains Indian	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Plains Indian is a hyponym of Native American; that is, Plains Indian 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
Plains Indian: 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

Other hyponyms of Native American include Algonquian, Algonquin, Anasazi, Athabascan, Athabaskan, Athapascan, Athapaskan, Maya, Mayan, Nahuatl, Olmec, Zapotec, Zapotecan, Buffalo Indian, Chickasaw, Coeur d'Alene, Creek, Haida, 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)	Plains Indian (noun)
any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived	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

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

Difference between Native American and Plains Indian

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