Native Americans is a term which has several different common meanings and scope, according to regional use and context. See the below articles, which describe various indigenous peoples in the following contexts: The term indigenous peoples has no universal, standard or fixed definition. ...

An Atsina named Assiniboin Boy

• Indigenous peoples of the Americas, natives of the American continents
  • Indigenous peoples in the United States, natives of the United States and its territories
    • Native Americans in the United States, natives of the United States only; equivalent to American Indians in some contexts.
    • Alaska Natives, natives of the state of Alaska, including Eskimo-Aleut peoples (Inuit and Yupik Eskimo peoples, Aleuts), and Athabascan, Eyak, Haida, Tlingit and Tsimshian peoples
    • Native Hawaiians, natives of the state of Hawaii
    • Pacific Islanders, including peoples in the U.S. Pacific Island dependencies (e.g. Chamorros, Marshallese), but also other Pacific nations.
  • Aboriginal peoples in Canada, including First Nations, Métis and Inuit
    • First Nations, Canadian natives, sometimes referred to as "Indians" or "North American Indians"
  • Indigenous peoples in Brazil, the povos indígenas of Brazil
  • Indigenous peoples of Mexico

When used in the United States, Native American may often refer to all indigenous peoples of North and South America collectively, but in most other countries the term is generally used to indicate indigenous people from the United States only. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (720x1024, 109 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Native Americans in the United States ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (720x1024, 109 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Native Americans in the United States ... Atsina: An inaccurate and derrogatory name for a Native American tribe located in northcentral Montana commonly known as the Gros Ventre. ... A Hupa man, 1923 The term Indigenous peoples of the Americas encompasses the inhabitants of the Americas before its European discovery in the late 15th century, as well as many present-day ethnic groups who identify themselves with those historical peoples. ... World map showing the Americas The Americas are the lands of the Western hemisphere or New World consisting of the continents of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions. ... Indigenous peoples in the United States are distinct groups of peoples who are indigenous to what are now states or territories of the United States of America. ... An Aani (Atsina) named Assiniboin Boy. ... Alaska Natives are indigenous peoples who live in what is now the U.S. state of Alaska. ... Native Hawaiians (in Hawaiian, kanaka oiwi or kanaka māoli) are the Polynesian peoples of the Hawaiian Islands who trace their ancestry back to Marquesan and possibly Tahitian settlers (starting circa 400 CE), before the arrival of British explorer Captain James Cook in 1778. ... A Pacific Islander or Pacific Person (plural: Pacific People) is a term used in several places, such as New Zealand and the United States, to describe people of a certain heritage In New Zealand, it is applied to a person who has emigrated from one of the smaller islands of... Aboriginal peoples in Canada are Indigenous Peoples recognized in the Canadian Constitution Act, 1982, sections 25 and 35, respectively, as Indians (First Nations), Métis, and Inuit. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Indigenous peoples in Brazil (povos indígenas in Portuguese) comprise a large number of distinct ethnic groups who inhabited the countrys present territory prior to its discovery by Europeans around 1500. ... Mayas at San Juan Chamula, Chiapas Mexico has defined itself, in the second article of its constitution, as a pluricultural nation, in recognition of the diverse ethnic groups that constitute it. ...

"Native American" can also simply be used to refer to any individual born into an American country. When this sense is meant, it is most often written without an initial capital: "native American."

In 19th-century United States politics, Native Americans also referred to members of the Native American Party or the associated movement, which has come to be known instead as the Know-Nothing movement. Politics of the United States of America takes place in a framework of a federal presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of the United States is both head of state and head of government, and of a two-party legislative and electoral system. ... The Know-Nothing movement was a nativist American political movement of the 1850s. ...

See also

• Native American name controversy
• Native Americans in the United States

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