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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How to use Native Americans in a sentence
Is it the one where we condemn the genocide of Native Americans?
Are Politicians Too Dumb to Understand the Lyrics to ‘Born in the USA’? | Parker Molloy | November 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHowever, Native Americans unhappy about the white settlers pouring into the Ohio Valley were reportedly waiting to attack him.
Does that sense of loss still resonate for current generations of Native Americans?
Sherman Alexie on His New Film, the Redskins, and Why It's OK to Laugh at His Work | William O’Connor | August 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTForgotten, but not gone—such is the plight of Native Americans in the modern U.S.
Sherman Alexie on His New Film, the Redskins, and Why It's OK to Laugh at His Work | William O’Connor | August 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOne thing that simmers beneath the surface of the movie is that sense of loss for Native Americans.
Sherman Alexie on His New Film, the Redskins, and Why It's OK to Laugh at His Work | William O’Connor | August 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
They are Native Americans by birth and blood, and we have no right to dispossess them by law of what we have given them by blood.
Manuel Pereira | F. C. AdamsCatholics, moreover, had combated the Native-Americans defiantly.
Native Americans, therefore, were frequently impressed, and compelled to serve against the French republic.
The Life of George Washington, Vol. 5 (of 5) | John MarshallNative Americans, to whom they should naturally look as the defenders of the country, were deterred from entering it.
Thirty Years' View (Vol. II of 2) | Thomas Hart BentonOn July fourth, of the same year, the Native Americans had a very large and showy procession through the streets of the city.
Peculiarities of American Cities | Willard Glazier
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