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Native American

[ney-tiv uh-mer-i-kuhn] / ˈneɪ tɪv əˈmɛr ɪ kən /
NOUN
aboriginal American
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At least six of the Native American leaders who accepted Jefferson’s invitation to visit Washington, D.C., between 1804 and 1809 died of illness before they could return to their families.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Stewart continued to find audiences in Texas dance halls, as well as on the Native American reservations of the Southwest.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

In all of the tension around the founding and the founding documents, there lurks this question of Native American belonging and exclusion and citizenship.

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2026

One is the creation of an “innovation fund” grant program that would give local governments or Native American tribes up to $10 million each for increasing their housing supply.

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026

In contrast, many apparently widespread Native American crops prove to consist of related species or even of genetically distinct varieties of the same species, independently domesticated in Mesoamerica, South America, and the eastern United States.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond