Native American carried round single spirit (9)
I believe the answer is:
aborigine
'native' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'american carried round single spirit' is the wordplay.
'american' becomes 'a' (common abbreviation - e.g. in organisation names).
'carried' becomes 'bore' (I've seen this before**).
'round' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'single' becomes 'i' (one).
'spirit' becomes 'gin' (I've seen this before).
'i'+'gin'='igin'
'bore' going around 'igin' is 'borigine'.
'a'+'borigine'='ABORIGINE'
(Other definitions for aborigine that I've seen before include "Native Australian" , "Original inhabitant" , "I was in Oz first"" , "Early Australian" , "Old Australian" .)