Native Americans
- Plano cultures, the Late Paleo-Indian hunter-gatherer societies of the Great Plains of North America
- Plano points, the chipped stone tools of the Plano cultures
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“...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)
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