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)

    “The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    “Southerners, whose ancestors a hundred years ago knew the horrors of a homeland devastated by war, are particularly determined that war shall never come to us again. All Americans understand the basic lessons of history: that we need to be resolute and able to protect ourselves, to prevent threats and domination by others.”
    —Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)