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Native American   /nˈeɪtɪv əmˈɛrəkən/   Listen
Native American

noun
1.
Any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived.  Synonym: Amerindian.
adjective
1.
Of or pertaining to American Indians or their culture or languages.  Synonyms: Amerind, Amerindic, Indian.  "Indian arrowheads"






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"Native american" Quotes from Famous Books



... at Falmouth on Sunday and departure from Falmouth on Wednesday." Furthermore the United States Government must guarantee "that no contraband (according to the German contraband list) is carried by those steamships." Such were the orders issued to the United States. No native American could escape the humor of the stipulations, which for a moment prevented the national irritation from swelling into an ...
— Woodrow Wilson and the World War - A Chronicle of Our Own Times. • Charles Seymour

... malignant diseasewas that which included THE FOREIGN-BORN POPULATION, alike in cities, in rural districts, within or without the registration area. This is certainly a fact of tremendous import. In America the population is a blend of every European nationality. Why, taken as a whole, should the native American suffer from one mysterious disease less than some of those who have come more recently to ...
— An Ethical Problem - Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals • Albert Leffingwell

... gestures made a grateful appeal, whose wild, musical words, just because they were uncomprehended, aroused in her dim suggestions of a race-experience not her own, but in which she was now somehow summoned to share. That these were the intruders whom she, as a native American, had once resented and despised did not occur to her. The racial sense so strong in her was drowned in a sense of fellowship. Their anger seemed to embody and express, as nothing else could have done, the revolt that had been ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... command of the city, Boves followed Bolivar. Quero was a native American and was so bad that Boves' rule was preferable ...
— Simon Bolivar, the Liberator • Guillermo A. Sherwell

... ANATTO (possibly a native American name, with many variants such as annatto, arnotto), a colouring matter produced from the seeds of Bixa orellana (natural order Flacourtiaceae), a small tree which grows in Central and South America. The seeds are surrounded with a thin coating of a waxy pulp, which is separated ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia


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