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Native Americans are the people descended from the various peoples who lived in North America before European colonization. |
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Native Americans, or American Indians, are the people descended from the various peoples who lived in North America before European colonization. |
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Tribes |
Tribes*Apache *Caddo? |
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*Kiowa? |
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*Coushatta? *Cree? |
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*Caddo? *Lakota? (Sioux) *Navaho? |
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*Apache *Cree? |
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*Mohican? *Coushatta? |
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*Kiowa? *Lakota? (Sioux) *Mohican? *Navaho? *Seminoles? |
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What to call these people |
What to call these people |
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Anthropologists originated the term, and prefer it to the former inaccurate apellation of "Indian" or "American Indian," as these terms bear no relationship to the actual origins of aboriginal Americans, and were born of the misapprehension on the part of Christopher Columbus, arriving at islands off the east coast of the North American continent, that he had reached the Indies. Of course, "Indian" and "American Indian" continue to be widely used in North America, even by Native Americans themselves, many of whom are not offended by the terms. |
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Anthropologists originated the term, and prefer it to the former apellations of "Indian" or "American Indian", which they consider inaccurate, as these terms bear no relationship to the actual origins of aboriginal Americans, and were born of the misapprehension on the part of Christopher Columbus, arriving at islands off the east coast of the North American continent, that he had reached the Indies. Of course, "Indian" and "American Indian" continue to be widely used in North America, even by Native Americans themselves, many of whom are not offended by the terms. |
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