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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 100. Chapters: Native Americans in the United States, Nation, Native American gaming, Genetic history of indigenous peoples of the Americas, Native American name controversy, Americanization of Native Americans, Native American civil rights, Native American mascot controversy, Handbook of North American Indians, List of place names in New England of aboriginal origin, Native American self-determination, Modern social statistics of Native Americans, Indian reservation, North American fur trade, List of U.S. communities with Native American majority populations, Native American recognition in the United States, Squaw, Impact of Native American gaming, James Willard Schultz, Culture of the Choctaw, Reservation poverty, Native American Reservation Politics, United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, Gender roles in First Nations and Native American tribes, Acoma Pueblo, Advisory Council on California Indian Policy, National Congress of American Indians, Melissa L. Tatum, Shadow Wolves, Redskin, Stereotypes of Native Americans, Portrayal of Native Americans in Film, Morris Thompson, Natoma, The Payne Family Native American Center, Same-sex marriage under United States tribal jurisdictions, Native American contributions, American Indian alcoholism, Urban Indian, Native American studies, Robert A. Williams, Jr., Praying town, Terrence L. Bracy, Indian rolling, James Anaya, National American Indian Memorial, Santa Fe Indian Market, Sycuan Institute on Tribal Gaming, Methamphetamine and Native Americans, Harmon Percy Marble, Miss Indian America, Historic Preservation Fund, Secretarial Review, American Indian Exposition, Pniese, Southwest Cup, Pinewood Indians, Minnesota Indian Affairs Council, United States House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs, Administration for Native Americans, List of American Indian Reservations in Massachusetts. Excerpt: Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as intact political communities. The terms used to refer to Native Americans are controversial; according to a 1995 US Census Bureau set of home interviews, most of the respondents with an expressed preference refer to themselves as American Indians or Indians. In the last 500 years, Afro-Eurasian migration to the Americas has led to centuries of conflict and adjustment between Old and New World societies. Most of the written historical record about Native Americans was made by Europeans after their immigration to the Americas. Many Native Americans lived as hunter-gatherer societies, although in many groups, women carried out sophisticated cultivation of a variety of staples: maize, beans and squash. Their cultures were quite different from those of the agrarian, proto-industrial immigrants from western Eurasia. The differences in culture between the established native Americans and immigrant Europeans, as well as shifting alliances among different nations of each culture, caused a great deal of political tension and ethnic violence. Estimates of the pre-Columbian population of what today constitutes the U.S. vary significantly, ranging from 1 million to 18 million. After the colonies revolted against Great Britain and established the United State...