[WhiskeyX]

The definition given for “nomad” by the Ameerican Heritage Dictionary is: “A member of a group of people who have no fixed home and move according to the seasons from place to place in search of food, water, and grazing land.” These Amerindian tribes did in fact have “no fixed home” and did “move according to the seasons from place to place in search of food, water, and” land for gathering herbs.

They are pretty much a textbook example of a nomadic or semi-nomadic lifestyle, missing only the grazing livestock and reoccupation of townsites for longer periods of time than plains nomads in the Old World and New World.

[Vigilanteman]

OO (and I) are simply pointing out that certain Indian tribes did have fixed locations and were even less "nomadic" than their white counterparts.

Examples:

1. The Pueblo lived in their cliff settlements (NE Arizona and NW New Mexico) for thousands of years.
   
2. The Mandan lived in the Knife River settlement in the Upper Missouri for at least 400 years.
   
3. The Powhattan whom John Smith and the Jamestown settlement encountered had been in the James River Valley for at least two centuries by 1607.