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Indigenous peoples continue to inhabit many regions of the Americas, with significant populations in countries such as Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, and the United States. There are at least 1,000 different Indigenous languages spoken across the Americas, with 574 federally recognized tribes in the US alone.
The genetic history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas is divided into two distinct periods: the initial peopling of the Americas from about 20,000 to 14,000 years ago (20–14 kya), and European contact, after about 500 years ago. [1][2] The first period of the genetic history of Indigenous Americans is the determinant factor for the ...
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Pub. L. 101-601, 25 U.S.C. 3001 et seq., 104 Stat. 3048, is a United States federal law enacted on November 16, 1990. The Act requires federal agencies and institutions that receive federal funding [1] to return Native American "cultural items" to lineal descendants and ...
Beginning in the 1830s, there was the relocation of an estimated 100,000 Indigenous people in the United States called the "Trail of Tears". [180] The tribes affected by this specific removal were the Five Civilized Tribes: The Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole.
The bean is native to Mexico and Central America and later began to be cultivated in South America. Indigenous peoples of North America began practicing farming approximately 4,000 years ago, late in the Archaic period of North American cultures. Technology had advanced to the point where pottery had started to become common and the small-scale ...
Caddo members of the Caddo Cultural Club, Binger, Oklahoma, 2008. Native American identity in the United States is a community identity, determined by the tribal nation the individual or group belongs to. [1][2] While it is common for non-Natives to consider it a racial or ethnic identity, for Native Americans in the United States it is ...
History of theUnited States. The history of Native Americans in the United States began before the founding of US, tens of thousands of years ago with the settlement of the Americas by the Paleo-Indians. The Eurasian migration to the Americas occurred over millennia via Beringia, a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska, as early humans spread ...
Native Americans (also called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans) are the Indigenous peoples of the United States of America, particularly of the lower 48 states and Alaska. They may also include any Americans whose origins lie in any of the indigenous peoples of North or South America.