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It should contain only Native women of the United States and its territories, not First Nations women or Native women of Central and South America. Native American identity is a complex and contested issue. The Bureau of Indian Affairs defines Native American as having American Indian or Alaska Native ancestry.
Indian Americans are citizens or residents of the United States of America who trace their family descent to India. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Notable Indian Americans include: This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
1983: Subrahmanyam Chandrasekhar won the Nobel Prize for Physics; Asian Indian Women in America [172] attended the first White House Briefing for Asian American Women. (AAIWA, formed in 1980, is the 1st Indian women's organization in North America.) 1985: Balu Natarajan becomes the first Indian American to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee
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This category is for notable related persons from families of Indian ancestry and American nationality. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
[9] [10] The adoption into an Indian family, of captives taken in raids, was common practice among the Native Americans of that time period, and Campbell most probably was adopted into a Lenape family according to this custom. Nevertheless, although it seems certain she was a member of the tribal group which followed and moved with Netawatwees ...
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The family lived on a small farm in Indian Territory outside Tahlequah. [6] Cherokee Nation tribal records indicate that Jackson Christie's blood quantum was either full blood or one-half. Mary Jane Cobb claimed she was Cherokee on her May 27, 1894, marriage record to Christie, but later testified under oath before the Dawes Commission that ...