Native Americans

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Native Americans are the Indigenous peoples of the United States, encompassing numerous distinct tribes and cultures with deep historical, spiritual, and cultural ties to the land long predating European colonization.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous peoples
cultural group
ethnic group
alternativeName Native Americans
surface form: American Indians

Native Americans
surface form: First Nations of the United States

Native Americans
surface form: Indigenous peoples of the United States
citizenship United States citizenship
continent North America
country United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalContribution beans cultivation
canoe design
corn cultivation
lacrosse
place names in the United States
snowshoe design
squash cultivation
culturalPractice Sun Dance
potlatch
powwow
sweat lodge ceremony
vision quest
demographics minority group in the United States
governedBy tribal governments
hasSubgroup Aleut
Apache
Blackfoot
surface form: Blackfeet

Cherokee Nation (historical)
surface form: Cherokee Nation

Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma
Cheyenne
Choctaw Nation
surface form: Choctaw

Comanche
Crow
Dakota
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
Haida
Haudenosaunee
Hopi people
surface form: Hopi

Inupiaq
surface form: Inupiat

Iroquois Confederacy
Sioux people
surface form: Lakota

Lumbee
Mohawk
Creek (Muscogee) Nation
surface form: Muscogee (Creek)

Navajo Nation
Nez Perce
Ojibwe
Paiute
Ancestral Puebloans
surface form: Pueblo peoples

Seminole
Shoshone
Sioux people
surface form: Sioux

Tlingit
Ute people
surface form: Ute

Wampanoag people
surface form: Wampanoag

Central Alaskan Yup’ik
surface form: Yupik
historicalEvent American Indian Movement
Great Sioux War of 1876
surface form: Battle of Little Bighorn

Trail of Tears
surface form: Long Walk of the Navajo

Occupation of Alcatraz
Red Power movement
Trail of Tears
Wounded Knee Massacre
historicalRegion California, United States
surface form: California

Great Basin
Great Plains
Northeast Woodlands
Pacific Northwest
Plateau
Southeastern Woodlands
southwestern United States
surface form: Southwest United States
languageFamily Algonquian languages
Na-Dene
surface form: Athabaskan languages

Iroquoian languages
Muskogean languages
Siouan languages
Uto-Aztecan
surface form: Uto-Aztecan languages
legalDocument Indian Citizenship Act of 1924
Indian Gaming Regulatory Act
Indian Removal policy of the United States
surface form: Indian Removal Act

Indian Reorganization Act
Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
legalStatus federally recognized tribe
state-recognized tribe
partOf Indigenous peoples of North America
surface form: Indigenous peoples of the Americas
populationAffectedBy European colonization of the Americas
assimilation policies
epidemic diseases
forced relocation
recognizedBy United States government
surface form: United States federal government

individual U.S. states
religion Christianity
Native American Church
Native American religions
Native American Church
surface form: Peyotism
rightsIssue cultural preservation
land rights
language revitalization
sovereignty
treaty rights
timeDepth Archaic period in North America
Mississippian culture
surface form: Mississippian culture period

Paleo-Indian period
Paleo-Indian period
surface form: Woodland period

pre-Columbian era
traditionalHousing hoghan
longhouse
pueblo
tipi
wigwam

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Cajun Country heritage Native Americans
this entity surface form: Native American
Petroglyph National Monument (part) hasHeritage Native Americans
subject surface form: Petroglyph National Monument
this entity surface form: Native American
As Long as Grass Grows mainSubject Native Americans
this entity surface form: Indigenous peoples in the United States
Anglo-American colonization of Texas mainParticipant Native Americans
this entity surface form: Native American peoples
Magua nationalityInFiction Native Americans
this entity surface form: Native American