Native Americans Explained
Native Americans or Native American usually refers to Native Americans in the United States.
Related terms and peoples include:
Ethnic groups
- Indigenous peoples of the Americas, the pre-Columbian peoples of North, South, and Central America and their descendants
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- Inuit, Indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, and Alaska.
- Métis in Canada, specific cultural communities who trace their descent to early communities consisting of both First Nations people and European settlers
- Indigenous peoples of Costa Rica
- Indigenous peoples of Mexico
- Indigenous peoples of South America
Arts and culture
History
Politics
- The "Native American" movement, a term for Nativism (politics)
- Native American Party, or Know Nothing, a "nativist" American political party of the 1850s ("nativists" as US-born descendants of settlers, not Indigenous peoples)
Religions
See also