Aboriginal Americans (or alternatively, American Aborigines) are the aboriginal (original residents) peoples of the Americas. They include the Native Americans and the Alaskan Natives. The more commonly used terms for these people are Native Americans and American Indians.
The Native Americans are called First Nations in Canada. And Alaska Natives' relatives in Canada are the Inuit. Together, they are sometimes called the First Peoples.
Native Americans in the United States (also Indians, American Indians, First Americans, Indigenous Peoples, Aboriginal Peoples, AboriginalAmericans, Amerindians, Amerinds, or Original Americans) are those indigenous peoples within the territory which is now encompassed by the continental United States, and their descendants in modern times.
Native Americans were stunned to learn that when the British made peace with the Americans in the Treaty of Paris (1783), the British had ceded a vast amount of American Indian territory to the United States without even informing their Indian allies.
In the American Southwest, especially New Mexico, a syncretism between the Catholicism brought by Spanish missionaries and the native religion is common; the religious drums, chants, and dances of the Pueblo people are regularly part of Masses at Santa Fe's Saint Francis Cathedral.
Native Americans (also Aboriginal Peoples, AboriginalAmericans, American Indians, Amerindians, Amerind, Indians, First Nations, First Peoples, Alaskan Natives, Native Canadians, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are those people who were in North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean Islands when the Europeans first came there.
Many of the American Indians died after the Europeans came to their countries, from diseases that came with the Europeans that were new to the Indians, in wars with the Europeans, or because the Europeans made them work as slaves.
Most of the American Indians also died due to guile on the part of settlers who used tricks such as trading them infected blankets and also by introducing foreign addicting substances such as alcohol which studies have proven are more addictive due to some biological functioning within American Indians.
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