Native Americans People who are Native to the North and South America.
- Indigenous peoples of the Americas
The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those peoples...
, natives of the American continents
- Genetic Native Americans
This article refers to the people of the world that genetic studies prove have a significant amount of Native American Asian blood. And also to those whom although have been fabled as having much have been proven otherwise.-Native Americans :...
Communities that have been proven to have much Native American blood.
- Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans in the United States is the phrase that describes indigenous peoples from North America now encompassed by the continental United States, including parts of Alaska and the island state of Hawaii. They comprise a large number of distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of...
, natives of the United States only; equivalent to American Indians in some contexts
- Alaska Natives
Alaska Natives are the indigenous peoples of Alaska. They include: Inupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Eyak, and a number of Northern Athabaskan cultures.-History:In 1912 the Alaska Native Brotherhood was founded...
, natives of the U.S. state of Alaska, including Eskimo-Aleut peoples (Inuit and Yupik Eskimo peoples, Aleuts), and Athabascan, Eyak, Haida, Tlingit and Tsimshian peoples
- Native Hawaiians
Native Hawaiians refers to the indigenous Polynesian people of the Hawaiian Islands or their descendants...
, natives of the islands now declared the state of Hawaii
- Taino
The Taínos are pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and the northern Lesser Antilles. It is believed that the seafaring Taínos are relatives of the Arawakan people of South America...
, indigenous people of Puerto Rico, many living in Florida, New Jersey, etc., no formal land arrangement with US government.
- Pacific Islander
Pacific Islander , is a geographic term to describe the Austronesian inhabitants of any of the three major sub-regions of Oceania: Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia...
, including peoples in the U.S.
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Native Americans People who are Native to the North and South America.
- Indigenous peoples of the Americas
The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those peoples...
, natives of the American continents
- Genetic Native Americans
This article refers to the people of the world that genetic studies prove have a significant amount of Native American Asian blood. And also to those whom although have been fabled as having much have been proven otherwise.-Native Americans :...
Communities that have been proven to have much Native American blood.
- Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans in the United States is the phrase that describes indigenous peoples from North America now encompassed by the continental United States, including parts of Alaska and the island state of Hawaii. They comprise a large number of distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of...
, natives of the United States only; equivalent to American Indians in some contexts
- Alaska Natives
Alaska Natives are the indigenous peoples of Alaska. They include: Inupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Eyak, and a number of Northern Athabaskan cultures.-History:In 1912 the Alaska Native Brotherhood was founded...
, natives of the U.S. state of Alaska, including Eskimo-Aleut peoples (Inuit and Yupik Eskimo peoples, Aleuts), and Athabascan, Eyak, Haida, Tlingit and Tsimshian peoples
- Native Hawaiians
Native Hawaiians refers to the indigenous Polynesian people of the Hawaiian Islands or their descendants...
, natives of the islands now declared the state of Hawaii
- Taino
The Taínos are pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and the northern Lesser Antilles. It is believed that the seafaring Taínos are relatives of the Arawakan people of South America...
, indigenous people of Puerto Rico, many living in Florida, New Jersey, etc., no formal land arrangement with US government.
- Pacific Islander
Pacific Islander , is a geographic term to describe the Austronesian inhabitants of any of the three major sub-regions of Oceania: Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia...
, including peoples in the U.S. Pacific Island dependencies (e.g. Chamorros, Marshallese), but also other Pacific nations
- Aboriginal peoples in Canada
Aboriginal peoples in Canada comprise the First Nations, Inuit and Métis. The descriptors Indian and Eskimo are falling into disuse. Old Crow Flats and Bluefish Caves are the earliest archaeological sites of human habitation in Canada. The Paleo-Indian Clovis, Plano cultures and Pre-Dorset...
, including First Nations, Métis and Inuit
- First Nations
First Nations is a term of ethnicity that refers to the Aboriginal peoples in Canada, who are neither Inuit nor Métis. There are currently over 600 recognised First Nations governments or bands spread all across Canada, roughly half of which are in the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia...
, Canadian natives, sometimes referred to as "Indians" or "North American Indians"
- Indigenous peoples in Brazil
The Indigenous peoples in Brazil comprise a large number of distinct ethnic groups who inhabited the country prior to the arrival of Europeans around 1500...
, the povos indígenas of Brazil
- Indigenous peoples in Mexico
- Indigenous people of the Everglades region
The indigenous people of the Everglades region arrived in the Florida peninsula approximately 15,000 years ago, probably following large game. The Paleo-Indians found an arid landscape that supported plants and animals adapted to desert conditions...
See also
- Native American name controversy
The Native American name controversy is a dispute over the acceptable terminology of the indigenous peoples of the Americas and to the broad subsets thereof, such as those living in a specific country or sharing certain cultural attributes....
- Nativism (politics)
Nativism favors the interests of certain established inhabitants of an area or nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants. It may also include the re-establishment or perpetuation of such individuals or their culture....
, anti-immigration politics
- Native American Party, a Nativist American political movement of the 1850s, has come to be known as the "Know Nothing
The Know Nothing movement was a nativist American political movement of the 1840s and 1850s. It was empowered by popular fears that the country was being overwhelmed by Irish Catholic immigrants, who were often regarded as hostile to U.S. values and controlled by the Pope in Rome...
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- Natural-born citizen
The United States Constitution requires that Presidents of the United States be natural born Citizens of the United States.-Constitutional provisions:...
, a special term mentioned in the United States Constitution as a requirement for eligibility to serve as President or Vice President of the United States.