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Usage Note:In principle,American Indiancan apply to all native peoples throughout the Americas except the Eskimo, Aleut, and Inuit, but in practice it is generally restricted to the peoples of the United States and Canada. For native peoples in the rest of the hemisphere, usage generally favo...
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From that pinnacle, though, the racial, religious, national, gendered, propertied, and related category exclusions have proceeded steadily downward and out, pushing in turn against the American Indians, the Blacks, the Mexicans, the Chinese, the women, the Jews, the Catholics, the Irish, the ...
In a broader context, the mistreatment and abuse of American Indians and, for that matter, discrimination against indigenous populations around the world, continue to receive widespread attention. Recently, federal governments in Canada and Australia have acknowledged historical abuse of native populations...
1 American Indians played a central role in the war known as the American Revolution. To them, however, the dispute between the colonists and England was peripheral. For American Indians the conflict was a war for American Indian independence, and whichever side they chose, they lost it. Mary...
RECAP: National Congress of American Indians opens big meeting in DC The National Congress of American Indians opened its executive council winter session in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. ‘We stand firm. We hold our ground’: Federal freeze impacts tribal gathering in nation’s capital As ...
Putting the Pope's "Penitential Pilgrimage" to "Canada" in Context Pope Francis’ death has brought recollections in the media about his July 2022 visit to Canada, billed as a “Penitential Pilgrimage” to the Original Peoples of that land. The event is being recalled as one of the Pope’...
Indians, AMERICAN.—GENERAL.—When Columbus landed on the island of San Salvador in 1492 he was welcomed by a brown-skinned people whose physical appearance confirmed him in his opinion that he had at last reached India, and whom, therefore, he called Indios, Indians, a name which, however...
"Native Americans" or "Indigenous Americans" are often used for people in Canada and the U.S. Christopher Columbus coined the term "Indian" Christopher Columbus thought he landed in the East Indies and called the indigenous people "Indians." U.S. state names derived from Indian words Names ...