Asian taking an article from a US state (6)
I believe the answer is:
indian
'asian' is the definition.
(I know that Indian is a type of asian)
'an article from a us state' is the wordplay.
'an' becomes 'i' (Roman numeral for one).
'article' becomes 'a' (the indefinite article in English).
'from' indicates named letters should be taken away.
'a' becomes 'an'.
'us state' becomes 'dian' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'an' with 'a' taken away is 'n'.
'i'+'n'+'dian'='INDIAN'
'taking' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for indian that I've seen before include "May be Asiatic or N. American" , "Native of North America" , "One type of elephant" , "Gandhi, for instance" , "This summer may happen in late autumn" .)