Native Americans
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'''Native Americans''' is a term which has several different common meanings and scope, according to regional use and context:
*[[Indigenous peoples of the Americas]], natives of the American continents
**[[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 Islander]], 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 in Mexico]]
**[[Indigenous people of the Everglades region]]
==See also==
*[[Native American name controversy]]
*[[Nativism (politics)]], anti-immigration politics
**[[Native American Party]], a nativist American political movement of the 1850s, has come to be known as the "Know Nothings"
*[[Natural-born citizen]], a special term mentioned in the United States Constitution as a requirement for eligibility to serve as President or Vice President of the United States.
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