Native Americans

The term Native Americans may refer to:

  • First Nations
  • Aboriginal peoples in Canada
  • Indigenous peoples of the Americas
  • Native Americans in the United States (Indian or American Indian), indigenous peoples living within the United States
  • Native American (album), an album by Tony Rice
  • Native American name controversy
  • Nativism (politics), anti-immigration politics
  • Native American Party, or "Know Nothings", a Nativist American political movement of the 1850

Famous quotes containing the words native americans, native and/or americans:

    “...I have ... been guilty of watching Westerns without acknowledging that Native Americans have gone through the same madness as African Americans. Isn’t it extraordinary that sometimes the most offended have not seen others being offended?”
    —Judith Jamison (b. 1943)

    “But, depend upon it, you will love your native hills the better for being separated from them.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.”
    —C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)