Amerindians, Amerind, Indians, First Nations, First Peoples, Native Canadians, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are those peoples indigenous to the Americas, living there prior to European colonization. This term encompasses a large number of distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of t...
Hispanic Americans, people living in the United States who are descendants of Spanish-speaking peoples. Since most Hispanics trace their ancestry to Latin America, they are also called Latinos. Hispanics make up the largest ethnic minority in the United
6 Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION The present work is a study of Guatemalans and Salvadorans who have come to Tucson since 1981 in search of refuge from life-threatening situations in their homelands. The cases in this study reveal the repression experienced by those living in parts of Guatemala and ...
In Texas, Mexican Americans distinguish themselves from the California Mexicans, with the largest Hispanic/Latino(a) population living in South Texas. In Houston, Mexican and Central Americans make up most of the Hispanic/Latino(a) population while Mayan Indians of Guatemala stand out as a ...
Even those living in the same region of the United States are widely different in terms of language, belief systems, and health status (e.g., the Navajo, Hopi, and Puma Indians of the Southwest). African Americans are also not a homogeneous group, with distinct variations evident between ...
(Placename) an isthmus joining the continents of North and South America, extending from the S border of Mexico to the NW border of Colombia and consisting of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. Area: about 518 000 sq km (200 000 sq miles) ...
Though not all Anglo Americans living in the same areas inhabited by Mexicans were appreciably better off, a definite economic disparity existed and was one of the reasons for a division to develop between the two cultures. Other differences made this division more pronounced, however. Whereas ...
They are the descendants of Africans who escaped slavery in the seventeenth century and intermarried with Caribs living in the eastern Caribbean Island area. Garifuna (ga-RIF-una) refers to the people and the language they speak. Garinagu (ga-REEN-a-goo) is the plural form preferred by ...
When living in a new place, connections to where you’re from whether through sports or other activities are key. Maintaining cultural identity while in a different country, especially America, is important but also difficult. For expats and immigrants in the US, they also stay close to home ...
(largest to smallest) El Salvador, Honduras, Peru, Guatemala, Bolivia, Argentina, Columbia, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Paraguay, Panama, Chile, Venezuela, and others. We reported group differences on the largest population in our database from El Salvador in the last table of ...