Native Americans or Native American may refer to:
Ethnic groups
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Indigenous peoples of the Americas
The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the inhabitants of the Americas before the arrival of the European settlers in the 15th century, and the ethnic groups who now identify themselves with those peoples.
Many Indigenous peoples of the A ...
, the pre-Columbian peoples of North and South America and their descendants
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Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans, also known as American Indians, First Americans, Indigenous Americans, and other terms, are the Indigenous peoples of the mainland United States ( Indigenous peoples of Hawaii, Alaska and territories of the United State ...
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Indigenous peoples in Canada
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First Nations in Canada
First Nations (french: Premières Nations) is a term used to identify those Indigenous Canadian peoples who are neither Inuit nor Métis. Traditionally, First Nations in Canada were peoples who lived south of the tree line, and mainly south ...
, Canadian indigenous peoples neither Inuit nor Métis
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Inuit
Inuit (; iu, ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, , dual: Inuuk, ) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories ...
, an indigenous people of the mainland and insular Bering Strait, northern coast, Labrador, Greenland, and Canadian Arctic Archipelago regions
** Métis in Canada, peoples of Canada originating from both indigenous (First Nations or Inuit) and European ancestry
* Indigenous peoples of Costa Rica
* Indigenous peoples of Mexico
* Indigenous peoples of South America
** Indigenous peoples in Argentina
** Indigenous peoples in Bolivia
** Indigenous peoples in Brazil
** Indigenous peoples in Chile
** Indigenous peoples in Colombia
** Indigenous peoples in Ecuador
** Indigenous peoples in Peru
** Indigenous peoples in Suriname
** Indigenous peoples in Venezuela
Arts and culture
* Native American (album), ''Native American'' (album), a 1992 album by Tony Rice
* ''The Native Americans'', a 1994 American documentary series
* "Native Americans", a 1972 composition by Ornette Coleman from ''Skies of America''
* "Native American", a 1987 song by Little Steven from ''Freedom – No Compromise''
* ''Native American'', or ''Sons of Beaches'', a 1995 The Bellamy Brothers discography#1990s albums, album by The Bellamy Brothers
Politics
* The "Native American" movement, a term for nativism in the United States
* Native American Party, or Know Nothing, an American nativist political party of the 1850s
Religions
* Native American religions
See also
* Native American name controversy
* Native American languages, languages spoken by indigenous peoples of the Americas
*American Indians (disambiguation)
*First Nations (disambiguation)
* Indian (disambiguation)
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