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This is a list of ethnic enclaves in various countries of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds to the native population. An ethnic enclave in this context denotes an area primarily populated by a population with similar ethnic or racial background. This list also includes concentrations rather than enclaves, and historic examples which may ...
The islands came to be known as the "West Indies" (or "Antilles"), a name that is still used to describe the islands. This led to the blanket term "Indies" and "Indians" ( Spanish : indios ; Portuguese : índios ; French : indiens ; Dutch : indianen ) for the Indigenous inhabitants, which implied some kind of ethnic or cultural unity among the ...
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In most cases, included articles concern all people from a country (national origin), regardless of their mixed ethnic origins within that country. For articles on people who are members of ethnic or national groups in the United States, see Category:American people by descent.
Neo-Taíno groups were also native to the Antilles islands, but had distinctive languages and cultural practices that differed from the High Taíno. [156] These groups include: Ciboney: a term preferred in Cuban historical texts for the neo-Taino-Siboney nations of the island of Cuba. Lucayans: Based in the Bahamas; Ciguayo: Eastern Hispaniola
The city is sometimes called the "Ninth Island" in reference to the eight islands of Hawaii. [28] [29] [30] A Samoan American is an American who is of ethnic Samoan descent from either the independent nation Samoa or the American territory of American Samoa. Samoan American is a subcategory of Polynesian American.
Although the exact timing of when each island group was settled is debated, it is widely accepted that the island groups in the geographic center of the region (i.e. the Cook Islands, Society Islands, Marquesas Islands, etc.) were settled initially between 1000 and 1150 AD, [33] [34] and ending with more far flung island groups such as Hawaii ...
In North America, the later stages are grouped instead into the Woodland period and Mississippian culture. Metallurgy in pre-Columbian America included for some cultures equivalents to Eurasian Copper Age and Bronze Age technology: In North America, cold copper working is found in the Old Copper complex, Hopewellian exchange, and Mississippian ...