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The RCA Indian-head test pattern. The Indian-head test pattern is a test card that gained widespread adoption during the black-and-white television broadcasting era as an aid in the calibration of television equipment. It features a drawing of a Native American wearing a headdress surrounded by numerous graphic elements designed to test ...
Native American Community Academy (NACA) is a charter K-12 school in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. It opened in 2006. Originally it was a grade 6-12 school, with grades 6-10 taking classes at temporary buildings on the grounds of Wilson Middle School, and with grades 11-12 attending classes at University of New Mexico School of Law .
NDN Collective is an indigenous-led activist and advocacy organization based in Rapid City, South Dakota, United States. [1] Founded in 2018, NDN Collective works with more than 200 Indigenous-led groups in the U.S. [2] NDN Collective's mission is "Build the collective power of Indigenous Peoples, communities, and Nations to exercise our inherent right to self-determination, while fostering a ...
Native Americans in the United States fall into several distinct ethnolinguistic and territorial phyla, with diverse governmental and economic systems. They can be classified as belonging to several large cultural areas: Contiguous United States. Californian tribes (Northern): Yok-Utian, Pacific Coast Athabaskan, Coast Miwok, Yurok, Palaihnihan ...
The most common of the modern terms to refer to Indigenous peoples of the United States are Indians, American Indians, and Native Americans. Up to the early to mid 18th century, the term Americans was not applied to people of European heritage in North America. Instead it was equivalent to the term Indians.
Hampton University is a private, historically black, research university in Hampton, Virginia.Founded in 1868 as Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School, it was established by Black and White leaders of the American Missionary Association after the American Civil War to provide education to freedmen.
The name will be retained, but the school plans to phase out its Native American logo, beginning with sports jerseys. [249] White County High School, Cleveland, Georgia; White Oak Middle School, Cincinnati, Ohio - School is considering changing its logo, which depicts a Native American in a headdress. [250] Wickes High School, Wickes, Arkansas
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 ...