Native Americans

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1. 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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In recent years, Native American activism has taken the form of calls for the protection of their tribal or ancestral shrines and artifacts.

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But that boom came much too late to prepare Native Americans of the United States for the impending disaster of European colonization.

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Such imbalances of equipment were decisive in innumerable other confrontations of Europeans with Native Americans and other peoples.

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That outcome also demonstrates that Native Americans were not constrained by cultural conservativism and were quite able to appreciate a good plant when they saw it.

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The farmers most knowledgeable about eastern U.S. domesticates, the region’s Native Americans themselves, passed judgment on them by discarding or deemphasizing them when the Mexican trinity arrived.

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In Clark’s journals, he wrote that many Native Americans were fascinated with York’s dark skin, his hair, his big frame.

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