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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 ...
An example of a famous person of Jersey descent in North America is William Cody, a bison hunter and showman. The North American Cody family is descended from Philip Le Caudey, who came to Massachusetts from the island. [11] [12] Jersey people have also emigrated to Great Britain.
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.
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.
The Kalina, also known as the Caribs or mainland Caribs and by several other names, are an Indigenous people native to the northern coastal areas of South America.Today, the Kalina live largely in villages on the rivers and coasts of Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and Brazil.
The inhabitants of Central America represent a variety of ancestries, ethnic groups, and races, making the region one of the most diverse in the world. Biologically the whole population is the result of mixed Amerindian–European-African, although the cultural classification consist to self-identified as mestizo , while others trend to self ...
A group of Aboriginal men in possum-skin cloaks (c. 1858) in Victoria Aboriginal farmers in Victoria, Australia, 1858 Aboriginal men in Northern Territory, circa 1905. Indigenous Australians include Aboriginal Australians on the mainland and Tiwi Islands as well as Torres Strait Islander peoples from the Torres Strait Islands.
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