who are native americans?

Answer 1

"Native Americans" is a term that white americans have labeled first people. First people are the tribes that crossed the land bridge and settled in what is now called America. First People are Pima, Chocataw, Nisqually, Chehalis, Sioux, Cheyanne and the list goes on. "Native American" does not refer to those people who are born in the States and raised there. I know....because I'm full blooded Pima from the Gila River Reservation.

Answer 2

The term Native Americans is used for the descendants of the people who where living on the American continent before the arrival of the Europeans.

Answer 3

This first peoples to inhabit the continent of North America, from as far back as the last Ice Age, from the former land bridge that used to connect Russia and Alaska.

Answer 4

the people that lived here for thousands of years be fore America was "discovered", they are call native because they were here first and thus the native people of this land, so in theory white people are illegal aliens to

Answer 5

Me. lol. the first known people to settle into american before the europeans came over.

Answer 6

Anyone born and raised here.

It's also (incorrectly) used as a PC term for Cherokee, Cree, Blackfoot, Algonquin, and other Indian tribes.

Answer 7

used to refer to the Indigenous People who refer to themselves as
" The People " who were here before the Europeans " invaded " the land they referred to as " Turtle Island " which later became the United States.

Answer 8

Someone born in the United States... or more literally, an American Indian.

Answer 9

Asian Americans, the First Wave.

Answer 10

People who are indigenous to the Americas,