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The Circum-Caribbean cultural region was characterized by anthropologist Julian Steward, who edited the Handbook of South American Indians. [1] It spans indigenous peoples in the Caribbean, Central American, and northern South America, the latter of which is listed here.
Indigenous peoples in Colombia. In South America, Indigenous peoples comprise the Pre-Columbian peoples and their descendants, as contrasted with people of European ancestry and those of African descent. In Spanish, indigenous peoples are referred to as pueblos indígenas (lit. ' indigenous peoples '), or pueblos nativos (lit. ' native peoples ').
This category is intended for articles on the Indigenous peoples of the Americas in South America, south of the Isthmus of Panama. Individual indigenous persons are placed in the subcategory Category:Indigenous people of South America .
Many places throughout North, Central, and South America take their names from the languages of the indigenous inhabitants of the area.The following list, organized by country, includes settlements, geographic features, and political subdivisions whose names are derived from indigenous languages.
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In North America, indigenous cultures in the Lower Mississippi Valley during the Middle Archaic period built complexes of multiple mounds, with several in Louisiana dated to 5600–5000 BP (3700 BC–3100 BC). Watson Brake is considered the oldest, multiple mound complex in the Americas, as it has been dated to 3500 BC. It and other Middle ...
Unfortunately, the probability of indigenous people to stay in school is very low. It is evident that there is an existing difference in education between the ethnic groups. [35] The indigenous population only has an average of 4.5 years of formal education, while non-indigenous population’s average of years is 8. [34]