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 and/or americans:

    “If Los Angeles has been called “the capital of crackpots” and “the metropolis of isms,” the native Angeleno can not fairly attribute all of the city’s idiosyncrasies to the newcomer—at least not so long as he consults the crystal ball for guidance in his business dealings and his wife goes shopping downtown in beach pajamas.”
    —For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “Then came the Americans with peanut butter.
    I gobbled it up like a vacation.
    I loved them all, even the GI who said “Jew pig”....”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)