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Topic: Native Americans (disambiguation)


  
  Native Americans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Native Americans is a term which has several different common meanings and scope, according to regional use and context.
In the history of the United States in the 19th century, Native Americans refers to members of the Native American Party or the associated movement, which has come to be known instead as the Know-Nothing movement.
Native American name controversy, on the differing uses and attitudes surrounding the term "Native American".
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 Encyclopedia: Native American   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Native Americans – also Indians, American Indians, First Nations, First Peoples, Indigenous Peoples of America, Aboriginal Peoples, Aboriginal Americans, Amerindians, Amerind, Native Canadians (or of other nations) – are those peoples indigenous to the Americas, living there prior to European colonization.
The terms "Amerindian" and "Indian", both of which are derivatives of "American Indian" (as is "Amerind", though this term is more popular in linguistic circles), are not necessarily completely synonymous with "Native American".
The term Native American may also be construed to either include or exclude the Mestizos and Zambos of Latin America.
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 Encyclopedia: Native Americans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Category: Disambiguation The Native American name controversy concerns disputed terms such as Native American used to describe the indigenous peoples of the New World; it also concerns the debate vis-Ã -vis how best to collectively describe and refer to the various indigenous peoples of the Americas, and of North America in particular.
Casinos operated by many Native American governments in the United States are creating a stream of gambling revenue that some communities are beginning to use as leverage to build diversified economies.
To be established as a tribal groups, members have to submit extensive genealogical proof of tribal descent, yet in past years many Native Americans denied their Native American heritage, because it would have deprived them of many rights, such as the right of probate.
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 Talk:Native Americans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Native American -- a discussion of the term, where it is used, to whom it does and does not apply, etc., with links to the appropriate articles, e.g.
Native American should be a dab page, pointing to both Indigenous peoples of the Americas and to American Indians in the United States.
Native Americans are those peoples indigenous to the United States prior to European colonization, and their descendants in modern times.
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 Native Americans in the United States - WIKIb2b   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Native Americans in the United States (also Indians, American Indians, First Americans, Indigenous Peoples, Aboriginal Peoples, Aboriginal Americans, Amerindians, Amerinds, or Original Americans) are those indigenous peoples within the territory which is now encompassed by the continental United States, and their descendants in modern times.
Native Americans were stunned to learn that when the British made peace with the Americans in the Treaty of Paris (1783), the British had ceded a vast amount of American Indian territory to the United States without even informing their Indian allies.
In the American Southwest, especially New Mexico, a syncretism between the Catholicism brought by Spanish missionaries and the native religion is common; the religious drums, chants, and dances of the Pueblo people are regularly part of Masses at Santa Fe's Saint Francis Cathedral.
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 Native American   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Native Americans (also Indians American Indians First Nations Alaskan Natives Red Indians or Indigenous Peoples of America) are the indigenous inhabitants of Americas prior to the European colonization and their modern descendants.
Native Americans officially make up the majority the population in Bolivia Peru and Guatemala and are a significant element in other former Spanish colonies with the exception of Costa Rica Cuba Argentina Dominican Republic and Uruguay.
These hypothetical American Aborigines would have been displaced by the migrants and may have been ancestral to distinctive Native Americans of the Tierra del Fuego which are nearly extinct.
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 NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE UNITED STATES FACTS AND INFORMATION
During the American War of Independence, the newly proclaimed United States competed with the British for the allegiance of Native American nations east of the Mississippi River.
In the early 21st century, Native American communities remain an enduring fixture on the United States landscape, in the American economy, and in the lives of Native Americans.
Russell Means, a famous American Indian activist, opposes the term ''Native American'' because he believes it was imposed by the government without the consent of American Indians.
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 Body image: body image survey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Subsequent studies on this issue have justified this idea, as men whose body mass index puts them in the overweight category often think their weight is in the ideal range, and that those who are clincailly obese often believe themselves to be merely overweight.
Native Americans have been impacted by body dissatisfaction from the influence of the media.
While urban Native Americans tend to be more socially integrated into mainstream society, reservation-bound Native Americans still retain community and family ties that may weaken the effects of television images.
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 Native Americans information site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
However, native is also often used to mean "belonging to an ethnic group historically inhabiting that region at the time Western writers became acquainted with the region." In this sense it is synonymous with "indigenous", as in "Native American" or "First Nations".
In biology, native means "of or from a certain place or region" and includes both indigenous and endemic species, contrasting with any of several terms meaning not native to a place: non-native, alien, adventive, or introduced.
Native operation system, native instruction set, etc., in application to a computer processor means that the corresponding item was implemented specifically for the given model of computer, as opposed to, say, emulation or compatibility mode.
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 Black Indians And Intertribal Native Americans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In biology, native means "of or from a certain place or region" andincludes both indigenous and endemic species, contrasting with any of several terms meaning not Natkve to a place: non-native, alien, adventive, or introduced.
Native operation system, native instruction set, etc., in application to a computer processor means that the corresponding item was implemented specifically for the given model of computer,as opposed to, say, emulation or compatibility mode.
The CIA World Factbook  (http: www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/2110.html) lists "American" as both thenoun and adjective forms of nationality for a citizen of the United States, although it is perhaps germane to point out that the Factbook is itself a U.S. government publication and thus hardly unbiased towards the controversy.
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 United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Asian Americans, including Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, are a third significant minority (4% of the population in 2000).
American colleges and universities range from highly competitive schools, both private (such as Harvard University, Bates College, Boston College, and Princeton University) and public (such as the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Virginia), to hundreds of high-quality local community colleges with open admission policies.
American football is one of the most popular spectator sports in the United States.
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 Cherokee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Cherokee are a people native to North America who first inhabited what is now the eastern and southeastern United States before being moved to the Ozark Plateau.
They were one of the tribes referred to by Native Americans as the Five Civilized Tribes.
Beginning at about the time of the American Revolutionary War, divisions over continued accommodation of encroachments by white settlers, despite repeated violations of previous treaties, caused some Cherokee to begin to leave the Cherokee Nation.
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 Encyclopedia: List of Native Americans
Native Americans (also Indians, American Indians, First Nations, or Red Indians) are indigenous people s and descendants of those who lived in the Americas prior to the Europe an colonization.
Native Americans officially make up the majority of the population in Bolivia, Peru and Guatemala and are significant in most other former Spanish colonies, with the exception of Costa Rica, Cuba, Argentina, Dominican Republic and Uruguay.
Native American contributions include pottery, painting s, jewelry, weaving s, sculpture s, basketry and carving s.
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 Shawnee - RecipeFacts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In 1782 the Ohio Shawnee fought with Britain and other Native American tribes from the Ohio valley at the Battle of Blue Licks and defeated an American force under command of John Todd.
After the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794 most of the Shawnee bands signed the Treaty of Greenville a year later, in which large parts of their homeland were turned over to the United States.
After the war the Shawnee in Kansas were once again dispeled and moved to Oklahoma whereupon the Shawnee part of the former Lewistown group became known as the Eastern Shawnee and the former Missouri Shawnee became known as the Loyal Shawnee due to their allegiance with the Union during the war.
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 Cheyenne Native American -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
A comprehensive tribal list can be found under "Classification of Native Americans." The terms "Amerindian" and "Indian", both of which are derivatives of "American Indian" (as is "Amerind", though this term is more popular in linguistic circles), are not necessarily completely synonymous with "Native American".
The term Native American may be construed to either include or exclude the Métis of Canada and the
In the long history of the English colonization of North America, the term "Indian massacre" was often used to describe mass killings of European-Americans ("whites") by Native Americans ("Indians"), and, less frequently, mass killings of American Indians by whites.
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 John Ford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Ford (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973) was one of the most accomplished American film directors of the 1930s to 1960s, known particularly as a director of the Westerns, although his tributes to the veterans of World War II and Americana are also equally effective.
In recent years, it has been claimed that his westerns, particularly The Searchers, portray Native Americans in an unflattering light, though it has also been said that The Searchers is actually a critique of the pathology of American racism.
Ford would define images of the American West with some of the most beautiful and powerful cinematography ever shot, including those in Stagecoach, The Searchers, Fort Apache, and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.
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 Lakota - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Lakota ("friends" or "allies", sometimes also spelled "Lakhota") are a Native American tribe, also known as the Sioux (see Names).
The Lakotaare part of a band of seven tribes that speak three different dialects, the other two being the Dakota and the Nakota.
This is part of a group of films constituting the first appearance of Native Americans in motion pictures.
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 Bat - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Inthis case, the exotic bat threatening native species is the Egyptian Bat (Roussettus aegyptiacus) 1.
Among some Native Americans, such as the Creek, Cherokee and Apache, the bat is atrickster spirit.
Chinese lore claims thebat is a symbol of longevity and happiness, and is similarly lucky in Poland andgeographical Macedonia and among the Kwakiutl and Arabs.
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Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest, which inhabited the lower
The Chinook salmon is Alaska's state fish and is native to the Pacific coasts of North America and Northeast Asia.
Native American languages of the Northwest Coast
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 The Ultimate American History Information Guide and Reference
Native Americans arrived on the North American continent in about the 9th millennium BC, give or take 5,000 years, and dominated the area until the influx of European settlers began in the early 17th century.
Colonial America was defined by ongoing battles with Native Americans, a severe labor shortage which birthed forms of unfree labor such as slavery and indentured servitude, and a British policy of benign neglect which permitted the development of an American spirit and culture which was distinct from that of its European founders.
Meanwhile, the American people completed their great migration from the farms into the cities, began shifting the economy from an industrial base to a service economy, and enjoyed the prosperity of triumphalist America.
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 Wikipedia: Klallam
Klallam refers to four distinct but otherwise related bands of Native Americans from western Washington state in the United States and British Columbia in Canada.
Three Klallam bands live on the Olympic Peninsula in the far northwest corner (bordering the Strait of Juan de Fuca) of the state and one at Becher Bay on southern Vancouver Island in British Columbia.
This is a variation of the infamous disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name, or extremely close to being the same.
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 Three Sisters (disambiguation) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The Three Sisters are a cluster of volcanoes in Oregon, USA.
Three Sisters is a term given to a series three islands on the Great Lakes.
This is a disambiguation page — a list of articles associated with the same title.
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 Wyandot: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Wyandot
This article is about the Native American tribe.
The Wyandot (also called the Huron) are a tribe of Native Americans originally from an area near Ontario, Canada.
The early French called the members of a four-tribe confederacy the 'Huron', a derogatory name derived from their word "hure" meaning rough or ruffian.
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 Winnebago - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Winnebago (tribe) of Native Americans with a reservation in Nebraska and Iowa.
The Ho-Chunk are a tribe of Native Americans commonly called Winnebago, who are a branch of the Winnebago tribe who returned to their homeland in Wisconsin.
A Winnebago is a popular brand of recreational vehicle, manufactured by Winnebago Industries of Forest City, Iowa.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Winnebago   (163 words)

  
 Umpqua - TheBestLinks.com - Umpqua County, Oregon, Umpqua (Native Americans), Disambig, ...
Umpqua - TheBestLinks.com - Umpqua County, Oregon, Umpqua (Native Americans), Disambig,...
Umpqua, Umpqua County, Oregon, Umpqua (Native Americans), Disambig, Umpqua...
This is a disambiguation page, i.e., a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
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 Ute - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Ute, a tribe of Native Americans of the
The state of Utah is named for this tribe.
If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.
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 Hispanic Americans - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Hispanic Americans
Hispanic Americans is not available in the Hutchinson encyclopedia.
Hispanic and Latin American Faculty & Staff Association
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Hispanic+Americans   (102 words)

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