Native American
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Native Americans People who are Native to the North and South America.
- Indigenous peoples of the Americas, natives of the American continents
- Native Americans in the United States, natives of the United States only; equivalent to American Indians in some contexts
- Alaska Natives, natives of the U.S. state of Alaska, including Eskimo-Aleut peoples (Inuit and Yupik Eskimo peoples, Aleuts), and Athabascan, Eyak, Haida, Tlingit and Tsimshian peoples
- Native Hawaiians, natives of the islands now declared the state of Hawaii
- Pacific Islander, including peoples in the U.S. Pacific Island dependencies (e.g. Chamorros, Marshallese), but also other Pacific nations
- Aboriginal peoples in Canada, including First Nations, Métis and Inuit
- First Nations, Canadian natives, sometimes referred to as "Indians" or "North American Indians"
- Indigenous peoples in Brazil, the povos indígenas of Brazil
- Indigenous people in Mexico
- Indigenous people of the Everglades region
- Native Americans in the United States, natives of the United States only; equivalent to American Indians in some contexts
See also
- Native American name controversy
- Nativism (politics), anti-immigration politics
- Native American Party, a Nativist American political movement of the 1850s, has come to be known as the "Know Nothings"
- Natural-born citizen, a special term mentioned in the United States Constitution as a requirement for eligibility to serve as President or Vice President of the United States.
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