Native Americans
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Native Americans is a term which has several different common meanings and scope, according to regional use and context. See the below articles, which describe various indigenous peoples in the following contexts: Image:Edward S. Curtis Collection People 013.jpg
Native American is the academically correct term for indigenous people of the Western Hemisphere. It is consistent with terms like Italian American, Asian American, African American, and other terms that denote geographic origins of people.
- Indigenous peoples of the Americas, natives of the American continents
- Indigenous peoples in the United States, natives of the United States and its territories
- Native Americans in the United States, natives of the United States only; equivalent to American Indians in some contexts.
- Alaska Natives, natives of the state of Alaska, including Eskimo-Aleut peoples (Inuit and Yupik Eskimo peoples, Aleuts), and Athabascan, Eyak, Haida, Tlingit and Tsimshian peoples
- Native Hawaiians, natives of the state of Hawaii
- Pacific Islanders, including peoples in the U.S. Pacific Island dependencies (e.g. Chamorros, Marshallese), but also other Pacific nations.
- Aboriginal peoples in Canada, including First Nations, Métis and Inuit
- First Nations, Canadian natives, sometimes referred to as "Indians" or "North American Indians"
- Indigenous peoples in Brazil, the povos indígenas of Brazil
- Indigenous peoples of Mexico
- Indigenous peoples in the United States, natives of the United States and its territories
When used in the United States, Native American may often refer to all indigenous peoples of North and South America collectively, but in most other countries the term is generally used to indicate indigenous people from the United States only.
"Native American" also sometimes used to refer to an individual born into an American country. It is more correct to refer to anyone born in the western hemisphere as an "American native," a "Native American" is a person who has a family history in the Western Hemisphere that extens back at least one thousand years. In 19th-century United States politics, native Americans (NOT indigenous peoples, but usually White Anglo-Saxon Protestants) also referred to members of the Native American Party or the associated movement, which has come to be known instead as the Know-Nothing movement.
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