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  2. Native Americans in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples of the land that the United States of America is located on. At its core, it includes peoples indigenous to the lower 48 states plus Alaska; it may additionally include any Americans whose origins lie in any of the ...

  3. Population history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    Many Native Americans viewed their troubles in a religious framework within their own belief systems. [ 128 ] According to later academics such as Noble David Cook, a community of scholars began "quietly accumulating piece by piece data on early epidemics in the Americas and their relation to the subjugation of native peoples."

  4. Navajo - Wikipedia

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    The Navajo[a] are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States. With more than 399,495 enrolled tribal members as of 2021, [1][4] the Navajo Nation is the largest federally recognized tribe in the United States; additionally, the Navajo Nation has the largest reservation in the country. The reservation straddles the Four Corners ...

  5. Genetic history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    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 ...

  6. Native American cultures in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Native American cultures across the 574 current federally recognized tribes in the United States, can vary considerably by language, beliefs, customs, practices, laws, art forms, traditional clothing, and other facets of culture. Yet along with this diversity, there are certain elements which are encountered frequently and shared by many tribal ...

  7. Classification of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    The Na-Dené, Inuit and Alaska Native populations exhibit haplogroup Q (Y-DNA) mutations, however are distinct from other Indigenous Americans with various mtDNA mutations. [82] [83] [84] This suggests that the earliest migrants into the northern extremes of North America and Greenland derived from later populations. [85]

  8. Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Native Americans are very closely related to the Paleosiberian tribes of Siberia, and to the ancient samples of the Mal'ta–Buret' culture (Ancient North Eurasians) as well as to the Ancient Beringians. Native Americans also share a relatively higher genetic affinity with East Asian peoples. Native American genetic ancestry is occasionally ...

  9. List of federally recognized tribes in the contiguous United ...

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    This is a list of federally recognized tribes in the contiguous United States. There are also federally recognized Alaska Native tribes. As of January 8, 2024, 574 Indian tribes were legally recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) of the United States. [1][2] Of these, 228 are located in Alaska and 109 are located in California. 346 of ...