Native American: Native Americans are the peoples who live in North, Central, and South America, and are the descendants of those who lived there before the European invasions commencing in the late fifteenth century. Hundreds, or possibly thousands, of tribes and cultures ... [92%] 2024-01-19 [Racism] [Anthropology]...
Native American: While there remains controversy over the preferred term, Native American is a frequently used term for U.S. citizens who trace their ancestry to include the pre-Columbian population of North America. [92%] 2023-10-20
Native state (metallurgy): Metals in their native state are those found in nature as free elements (chemically uncombined). They are usually attached to or mixed with varying amounts of undesired material (gangue), and require only physical separation to produce usable metal. (Metallurgy) [89%] 2024-09-13 [Metallurgy]
Native Americans: The Plains Indian has been one of the most important and pervasive icons in American culture. Imagine him, for example, as a young man on horseback. Almost without effort, the image conjures up full-blown narratives of buffalo hunts and ... (Geography) [87%] 2004-01-01 [North America] [Great Plains]...
Native Americans: Rally marchers leave Pine Ridge, South Dakota, on their way to Whiteclay, Nebraska, on June 26, 1999. The demonstration by Native Americans protested the sale of alcohol and unsolved murders in Whiteclay. View larger #### * Native Americans * Allotment * American Indian Movement ... (Geography) [87%] 2004-01-01 [North America] [Great Plains]...
State of nature: The state of nature, in moral and political philosophy, religion, social contract theories and international law, is the hypothetical life of people before societies came into existence. Philosophers of the state of nature theory deduce that there must have been ... (Philosophy) [78%] 2024-01-01 [Political philosophy] [Philosophical concepts]...
List of first Native American U.S. state legislators: Native Americans have served in state legislatures, with several interruptions, since Greenwood LeFlore was elected to the Mississippi lower house in 1841. Twenty-one states (out of 50) have yet to elect or appoint any Native American state legislators. (List of Native Americans who were first state legislators) [76%] 2023-12-18 [Lists of Native American people] [Lists of firsts]...
Native American studies: Native American studies (also known as American Indian, Indigenous American, Aboriginal, Native, or First Nations studies) is an interdisciplinary academic field that examines the history, culture, politics, issues, spirituality, sociology and contemporary experience of Native peoples in North America, or ... (Philosophy) [75%] 2023-12-01 [Postmodernism]
Native American genocides: Genocides against Native Americans, or American Indian Genocide (Amerindian genocides) or American Indian Holocaust are terms used by specialists in Native American history, as well as Native American activists, to bring attention to what they contend is the deliberate mass ... [75%] 2024-01-07 [Crimes against humanity] [Genocide]...
Native American Literature: Native American literature begins with the oral traditions in the hundreds of Indigenous cultures of North America and finds its fullness in all aspects of written literature as well. Until the last several decades, however, Native American literature has primarily ... (Geography) [75%] 2004-01-01 [North America] [Great Plains]...
Native American gaming: Native American gaming comprises casinos, bingo halls, and other gambling operations on Indian reservations or other tribal lands in the United States. Because these areas have tribal sovereignty, states have limited ability to forbid gambling there, as codified by the ... (Gambling operations on Indian reservations in the United States) [75%] 2024-01-19 [Native American casinos] [Native American topics]...