The word Amerind (a contraction of "American Indian") usually refers to the Native Americans, the peoples who lived in the Americas before the Europeans arrived in the continent; and to the modern ethnic communities that originate from those peoples.
The word was also used in 1987 by linguist Joseph Greenberg for the Amerind languages, one of three proposed linguistic families in which he classified all Native American languages (the other two being Na-Dene and Eskimo-Aleut).
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The Amerind pursues a policy of scientific research as the obvious means for increasing our knowledge of the cultures of the Americas.
Amerind firmly believes that the resultant findings (of scientific inquiry) should be widely disseminated to both the scholarly community and the general public through a variety of activities, displays, and publications.
The Amerind is committed to interpreting this diversity in both the archaeological and ethnographic context to create a better understanding among peoples of contrasting cultural backgrounds.
Founded in 1937 by William Shirley Fulton, the Amerind Foundation is a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) anthropological and archaeological museum and research center dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of Native American cultures and their histories.
Amerind Museum exhibitions tell the story of America's first peoples from Alaska to South America and from the last Ice Age to the present.
The Amerind also has a comprehensive hands-on education program for children of all ages, and special events and openings are a periodic feature of the Amerind calendar.
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