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Native American

noun as in aboriginal American

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Interior will oversee programs for Native American education.

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It entered bankruptcy facing lawsuits from virtually every state, as well as some 2,600 cities, counties, Native American tribes, hospitals and others seeking to recoup costs incurred from the opioid crisis.

During the bankruptcy, more than 600,000 claims were filed, including by the U.S. government, states, thousands of governments, hundreds of Native American tribes, more than 130,000 personal-injury victims, hospitals, public schools and others.

He kept a collection of colonial maps tracing the migration of the Aztec people, part of what his son called “his love for Native American and Aztec culture.”

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There’s a long history there, shown in “1883” when his ancestors violate Native American territorial boundaries and, elsewhere in “The English,” where Eli’s insistence on claiming what the government says he’s owed for his military service is constantly met with reminders that he isn’t white and, therefore, his life is worth less than that of a white man.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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