Native Americans
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- Native Americans
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- Native Americans are the peoples indigenous to the land and territories that would become the United States. European and American colonization decimated the population through genocide, warfare, enslavement, disease, and removal. The rights and privileges afforded to Native Americans have varied over the course of U.S. history as the legal status of sovereign tribal nations has evolved. This term includes Afro-Indigenous or Black Natives and their descendants, Black people who were enslaved by the Five Tribes (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole, and Choctaw). Native Americans have historically been referred to as "Indians" by the federal government.
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- Native Americans
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- Native Americans are the peoples indigenous to the land and territories that would become the United States. European and American colonization decimated the population through genocide, warfare, enslavement, disease, and removal. The rights and privileges afforded to Native Americans have varied over the course of U.S. history as the legal status of sovereign tribal nations has evolved. This term includes Afro-Indigenous or Black Natives and their descendants, Black people who were enslaved by the Five Tribes (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole, and Choctaw). Native Americans have historically been referred to as "Indians" by the federal government.
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