American Indian may refer to:
- Indian American, an inhabitant of the United States with ancestors from India.
- Native Americans in the United States, the indigenous peoples within the present-day boundaries of the United States
- Indigenous peoples of the Americas, the indigenous peoples of North and South America
Famous quotes containing the words american and/or indian:
“The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)
“Our Indian said that he was a doctor, and could tell me some medicinal use for every plant I could show him ... proving himself as good as his word. According to his account, he had acquired such knowledge in his youth from a wise old Indian with whom he associated, and he lamented that the present generation of Indians “had lost a great deal.””
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)