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Native american

adj, noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of the American Indians.
Adjective
  1. 1
    of or pertaining to Native Americans or their culture or languages wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A member of some Indigenous peoples of the Americas.
  2. 2
    any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived wordnet
  3. 3
    An Indigenous person of the contiguous United States.
  4. 4
    A resident of the United States who is not an immigrant. (Often uncapitalized: native American.) dated

    "His name, as given on the records, was Joe Slater, or Slaader, and his appearance was that of the typical denizen of the Catskill Mountain region; one of those strange, repellent scions of a primitive colonial peasant stock whose isolation for nearly three centuries in the hilly fastnesses of a little-travelled countryside has caused them to sink to a kind of barbaric degeneracy, […] their general mental status is probably below that of any other section of the native American people."

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