Indigenous peoples of the Americas
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The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those peoples. They are often also referred to as Native Americans, First Nations and by Christopher Columbus' historical mistake Indians, modernly disambiguated as the American Indian race, American Indians, Amerindians, Amerinds, or Red Indians.
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See also
- Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas
- Origins of Paleoindians
- Alaska Natives
- History of the west coast of North America
- Hyphenated American
- Indigenous arts of the Americas
- Indigenous languages of the Americas
- Indigenous Movements in the Americas
- Indigenous rights
- List of American Inuit
- List of Greenlandic Inuit
- List of indigenous artists of the Americas
- List of indigenous people of the Americas
- List of traditional territories of the indigenous peoples of North America
- List of writers from peoples indigenous to the Americas
- Native American Languages Act of 1990
- Native American religion
- Native American weaponry
- Native Hawaiians
- Pacific Islander
- Population history of American indigenous peoples
- Uncontacted peoples
- Zambo
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