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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 March 2025. Indigenous peoples of the United States This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. Consider splitting content into sub-articles, condensing it, or adding subheadings. Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page. (October 2024) Ethnic group Native Americans ...
Some tribes have a blood quantum requirement for citizenship. Others use other methods, such as lineal descent.While almost two-thirds of all federally recognized Indian tribes in the United States require a certain blood quantum for citizenship, [15] tribal nations are sovereign nations, with a government to government relationship with the United States, and set their own enrollment criteria.
A Mapuche man in present-day Chile A Mapuche man and woman; the Mapuche make up about 85% of Indigenous population that live in Chile. According to the 2012 Census, 10% of the Chilean population, including the Rapa Nui (a Polynesian people) of Easter Island, was Indigenous, although most show varying degrees of mixed heritage. [260]
The census allows individuals to self-identify as Indian, merely by checking the racial category, "Native American/Alaska Native". [20] In 1990, about 1.8 million people self-identified in the census as American Indian. But only about 60 percent of those, or 1.14 million people, were enrolled in federally recognized tribes. [21]
Washington (1974) was a court case that affirmed the fishing treaty rights of Washington tribes; and other tribes demanded that the U.S. government recognize aboriginal titles. All the above culminated in the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 , which legitimized tribal entities by partially restoring Native American ...
Generally referred to as Aboriginal peoples in Canada when looking at the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples collectively. Main article: Notable Aboriginal people of Canada Further information: List of Canadian Inuit , List of First Nations people , and List of Métis people
Little Turkey was First Beloved Man of the Cherokee people, becoming the first Principal Chief of a united Cherokee Nation in 1794; Little Turtle, Miami chief; Lone Wolf the Elder, Kiowa chief; Lone Wolf the Younger, Kiowa leader; Major Ridge, Cherokee chief, led Lighthorse Patrol and signed the Treaty of New Echota. Mangas Coloradas, Apache chief
The bean is native to Mexico and Central America and later began to be cultivated in South America. (from Indigenous peoples of the Americas ) Image 7 Language families of Indigenous peoples in North America shown across present-day Canada , Greenland , the United States , and northern Mexico (from Indigenous peoples of the Americas )