what is native american ?

Answer 1

Extinct. Almost. But people who were here before america was known as america. "Indians".

Answer 2

People native to the American continents. People who were the first inhabitants of America. The largest concentration of Native Americans in the United States is in Oklahoma, many people who have past generations born in the US are part Native American.

Answer 3

20,000 or more ago, Asian people from Asia had crossed the ice-bridge at the Bering-Strait from Siberia to America. Overtime, these first human creatures that exist for the first time in the continent of America evolved differently from the Asian people in Asia. That's why they don't look the same as today. Eventhough evolved differently due to different environments, climates, foods, air, ctc..., DNA genetic technologies had figured out that the Native Americans shared genetic similarities as the Asians (Genetic Group A,B,C,D...). Physical features speaking, eventhough the Native Americans look different, they though still share the same traits. For ex: The eyes of Native American people are still almond shaped, their hair is straight-black hair and such...These people considered to be the first human inhabitant in the continent of America.

Answer 4

Technically anybody born in the USA is a native american, so I consider mysellf a native american. Calling the original indigenous people of the "North American landmass" native americans is kind of bogus because they were here long before anyone thought of calling it "America". "American" and "Indian" are both "white mans words".

Answer 5

The indigenous people to North and South Americas such as Shyane, Cherokee and Apache Indians and all the other tribes known to inhabit the region before Columbus"Found" the Americas it also includes the Mayans and many other Spanish Indians

Answer 6

The original Americans,also called "red indians"

Answer 7

Although it literally means anyone actually born in the U.S., usually people use the term to refer to the Red man - Apache, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Iroquois, Sioux, Onondaga, etc meaning the peoples who lived here before the White, Black, and Yellow man emigrated here from the Eastern half of the globe (commonly referred to as the Old World).
Calling them "Indians" is actually a misnomer. The early explorers thought they had arrived in India and labelled them as such. Indians are people who are actually from India...

Answer 8

The term generally refers to the descendants of the tribes living in North and South America for the last several thousand years.

Answer 9

the first to step on this land, native americans like the menomonee, chipewa,and Potawatomi (or Pottawatomie )in Wisconsin.

Answer 10

Indians from north and south america.