Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples from the regions of North America now encompassed by the continental United States, including parts of Alaska. They comprise a large number of distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which still endure as political communities. There is a wide range of terms used, and some controversy surrounding their use: they are variously known as American Indians, Indians, Amerindians, Amerinds, or Indigenous, Aboriginal or Original Americans.Not all Native Americans come from the continental U.S. Some come from Alaska, Hawaii and other insular regions. These other indigenous peoples, including Alaskan Native groups such as the Inupiaq, Yupik Eskimos, and Aleuts, are not always counted as Native Americans, although Census 2000 demographics listed "American Indian and Alaskan Native" collectively.

(Satire) - In an effort to drum up support for propositions 94, 95, 96 and 97, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared that Native Americans still have much to pay back for their attempted slaughter of the white man during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.

Native American and Indigenous peoples everywhere will find this new wiki of interest for genealogy, history, culture, all things Native, past and present. You can help build this wiki.

President Bush's threat to veto a bill intended to improve health care for the nation's American Indians is both cruel and grossly unfair. Five years ago, the United States Commission on Civil Rights examined the government's centuries-old treaty obligations for the welfare of Native Americans and found Washington spending 50 percent less ...

Imagine that Tennessee has been partitioned to give Native Americans a homeland of their own. Imagine Tennesseans in the role of the Palestinians. Americans know the Israeli story. They need to understand the Palestinian story if a just peace is ever to be achieved.

The US Government's inability to apologize when it's wrong.