Native Americans

The descendants of the original inhabitants of North America and South America before the arrival of white settlers from Europe , also called Indians or American Indians. The term Native American is sometimes preferred over Indian because the latter is a misnomer that originated with Columbus , who mistook the inhabitants of America for the people of India . Both terms, however, are accepted.

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In recent years, Native American activism has taken the form of calls for the protection of their tribal or ancestral shrines and artifacts.

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As a function of the race-wealth gap, African-Americans, Hispanics and Latinos, Native Americans and members of other marginalized communities have even less in savings than the average white American.

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French settlers called it Bad River; to the Native Americans who lived there first, it was always Mashkiiziibii: Medicine River.

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Native Americans also had more than double the rate of both Black and white Americans that year.”

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Certain aspects of the Irish experience are similar to those of African Americans, Native Americans and indigenous or colonized groups elsewhere.

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Lawmakers granted citizenship to all Native Americans in 1924, after the court had ruled decades before that people born on reservations were not entitled to citizenship.

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