A person having origin in any of the original peoples of North America and who maintains cultural identification through tribal affiliation or ...
refers to American Indians, Eskimos, and Aleuts as one racial and ethnic group indigenous or original inhabitants of the Americas prior to European arrival. a member of any of the aboriginal peoples of the Western Hemisphere except usually the Eskimos, especially an American Indian of North America and ... American Indian or Alaskan Native The aboriginal population of Native Americans, known as American Indians and Inuit, make up about 1.5 percent of the population. Native American is a term used most commonly in the United States to describe the indigenous peoples living between the Bering Strait in Alaska and Tierra del Fuego in Chile . Native American is often used as a replacement for the older term, Indian. All persons having origins in any of the original peoples of North America, including American Indian, Alaskan Native, Aleut or Native Hawaiian. According to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990, as amended (25 USC 3001 et seq.; PL 101-601), of or relating to a tribe, people, or culture that is indigenous to the United States. Many states' names are those of Native American tribes or are from Native American languages: Nebraska, Kansas, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Mississippi, Texas, Utah, Ohio, Michigan, Oklahoma, Alabama, Tennessee, and others. ... which includes persons whose origins are American Indians, Eskimos, Aleuts, or Native Hawaiians. Indian: of or pertaining to American Indians or their culture or languages; 'Native American religions'; 'Indian arrowheads' Amerindian: any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived a member of the indigenous peoples of North America, the Amerindians; of the indigenous peoples of North America, the Amerindians
A person who is an American Indian, Eskimo, Aleut or Native Hawaiian, and regarded as such by the community of which the person claims to be a part. ...
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