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| | Native American - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Native Americans (also Aboriginal Peoples, Aboriginal Americans, American Indians, Amerindians, Amerind, Indians, First Nations, First Peoples, Alaskan Natives, Native Canadians, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are those peoples indigenous to the Americas, living there prior to European colonization. |
 | | Ironically, the horse had originally evolved in the Americas, but the last American horses, (species Equus Scotti and others http://www.acnatsci.org/museum/jefferson/otherFossils/equus.html) died out at the end of the last ice age. |
 | | Military defeat, cultural pressure, confinement on reservations, forced cultural assimilation, outlawing of native languages and culture, forced sterilizations, termination policies of the 1950s, and 1960s, and slavery have had deleterious effects on Native Americans' mental and physical health. |
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