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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 137. Chapters: Native Americans in the United States, Smoke signal, Edward S. Curtis, Southeastern Ceremonial Complex, Pow-wow, Native American cuisine, Rio Grande Glaze Ware, Native American use of fire, Slavery among Native Americans in the United States, Prehistoric Southwestern Cultural Divisions, Old Stone Fort, Daybreak Star Cultural Center, National Museum of the American Indian, Repoussé and chasing, Eastern Agricultural Complex, Roosevelt Red Ware, Callitropsis nootkatensis, Kituwa, Native Americans in children's literature, Mohawk hairstyle, Calumet, Mission San Luis de Apalachee, Tomahawk, Mi'kmaq hieroglyphic writing, Plank house, Rio Grande White Ware, Northwest Coast art, Portrayal of Native Americans in Film, List of bibliographical materials on the potlatch, Flying Head, Clovis point, Chickamauga Indian, Cupstone, Ledger art, Kettle Falls, George Gustav Heye, Frank Rinehart, Gunstock war club, Koshare Indian Dancers, Cascades Rapids, Dreamcatcher, Water glyphs, Unthanksgiving Day, Treaty of Hartford, National Eagle Repository, Fighting Whites, Mayaca people, National American Indian Heritage Month, Cohonina, Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument, Native American Renaissance, Fremont culture, Patayan, Journey to Ixtlan, Crow Fair, Izze-kloth, War canoe, Celebration, Virgin Anasazi, Tumpline, Folsom point, Mazinibaganjigan, Cherokee National Holiday, Chamacoco language, Miss Indian America, Corn crib, Lamoka projectile point, Traditional Apache scout, Travois, Gathering of Nations, The Indian Picture Opera, Counting coup, Charles Littleleaf, Priest Rapids, Indian Country, Nespelem, Susquehanna broad projectile point, Levanna projectile point, Crooked knife, Tomol, Kule Loklo, Jack's Reef pentagonal projectile point, Moki Steps, Puccoon, Caddoan village bundle, Cornstalk fiddle, Papoose, Greene projectile point, Weather stick, Babiche, Ohunka, Cumberland point, Ruby site. 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 establishe...