Native Americans are more commonly known as Indians or American Indians, and have been known as Aboriginal Americans, Amerindians, Amerinds, Colored, First Americans, Native Indians, Indigenous, Original Americans, Red Indians, Redskins or Red Men.

Prior to colonization, Aboriginal Americans occasionally used pigeons for meat.

The peoples of other continents ( Sub-Saharan Africans, Native Americans, Aboriginal Australians and New Guineans, and the original inhabitants of tropical Southeast Asia ) have been largely conquered, displaced and in some extreme cases – referring to Native Americans, Aboriginal Australians and South Africa's indigenous Khoisan peoples – largely exterminated by farm-based societies such as Eurasians and Bantu.

The springs, and their rumored medicinal benefits, attracted numerous Aboriginal Americans as well as Europeans to the area.

# The concept of bisexuality may not exist in a given culture or may be encompassed by transgender identities as in some indigenous cultures such as those of Native Americans, Aboriginal peoples in Canada or the Zapotec in Oaxaca, Mexico.

The majority of research in this area has been about the intuitive mathematical thinking of small-scale, traditional, indigenous cultures including: Aboriginal Australians ,) the indigenous people of Liberia, Native Americans in North America, Pacific Islanders, Brazilian construction foremen, and tribes in Africa.

The racial makeup of the city is 94. 74 % non-visible minority, 5. 08 % Aboriginal ( 67. 3 % First Nations and 27. 4 % Métis people ), 1. 53 % Chinese, 0. 75 % Filipino, 0. 62 % Southeast Asian, 0. 50 % South Asian, 0. 48 % Black, 0. 32 % Latin Americans, 0. 23 % Korean, 0. 09 % Japanese and 0. 05 % who list themselves as multiple visible minority.

The American equivalent —" people of color "— is similar, but also includes Aboriginal Americans.

There are reports of the use of maggots for wound healing by Maya Native Americans and Aboriginal tribes in Australia.

Abugidas were long considered to be syllabaries or intermediate between syllabaries and alphabets, and the term " syllabics " is retained in the name of Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics.

However, this translation may not accurately represent the role of the bunyip in Aboriginal mythology or its possible origins before written accounts were made.

The other judges were John Toohey QC, a former Justice of the High Court of Australia who had worked on Aboriginal issues ( he replaced New Zealander Sir Edward Somers QC, who retired from the Inquiry in 2000 for personal reasons ), and Mr Justice William Hoyt QC, former Chief Justice of New Brunswick and a member of the Canadian Judicial Council.

The Aboriginal people of the Larrakia language group were the first inhabitants of the greater Darwin area.

Among his substantial publications from this period were his book on " Time Perspective in the Aboriginal American Culture " ( 1916 ), in which he laid out an approach to using historical linguistics to study the prehistory of Native American cultures.

In the 19th century these systems were called syllabics, a term which has survived in the name of Canadian Aboriginal syllabics ( also an abugida ).

The Stolen Generations ( also known as Stolen children ) were the children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were removed from their families by the Australian Federal and State government agencies and church missions, under acts of their respective parliaments.

Terms such as " stolen " were used in the context of taking children from their families – the Hon P. McGarry, a member of the Parliament of New South Wales, objected to the Aborigines Protection Amending Act 1915 which then enabled the Aborigines ' Protection Board to remove Aboriginal children from their parents without having to establish that they were in any way neglected or mistreated ; McGarry described the policy as " steal the child away from its parents ".

The protection was done through each jurisdiction's Aboriginal Protection Board ; in Victoria and Western Australia these boards were also responsible for applying what were known as Half-caste acts.

Policemen or other agents of the state ( such as ' Aboriginal Protection Officers ') were given the power to locate and transfer babies and children of mixed descent from their mothers or families or communities into institutions.

The Bringing Them Home Report is often quoted as saying that " at least 100, 000 " children were removed from their parents, but this figure is arrived at by multiplying the Aboriginal population in 1994 ( 303, 000 ), by the report's maximum estimate of " one in three ".

Her first, My Place, involves her quest to uncover her Aboriginal heritage which had previously been denied by her family, who insisted " as a survival mechanism " that they were of Indian extraction.

Aborigines also attacked white settlers – in 1838 fourteen Europeans were killed at Broken River in Port Phillip District, by Aborigines of the Ovens River, almost certainly in revenge for the illicit use of Aboriginal women.

" Queensland ’ s Colonial Secretary A. H. Palmer wrote in 1884 " the nature of the blacks was so treacherous that they were only guided by fear – in fact it was only possible to rule … the Australian Aboriginal … by brute force " The most recent massacre of Aborigines was at Coniston in the Northern Territory in 1928.

Elsewhere around this time, activists like Sir Douglas Nicholls were commencing their campaigns for Aboriginal rights within the established Australian political system and the age of frontier conflict closed.

Not only were the Métis skilled hunters, but they were also raised to appreciate both Aboriginal and European cultures.

During the constitutional talks of 1989, the Métis were recognized as one of the three Aboriginal peoples of Canada.

The 19th Century community of Anglo-Métis, more commonly known as Countryborn, were children of Rupert's Land fur trade ; typically of Orcadian, Scottish, or English paternal descent and Aboriginal maternal descent.

According to Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, the Métis were historically the children of French fur traders and Nehiyaw women or, from unions of English or Scottish traders and northern Dene women ( Anglo-Métis ).

According to the North American archeological and Aboriginal genetic evidence, North and South America were the last continents in the world with human habitation.

The last major Aboriginal rebellion, the Musha Uprising ( Wushe Uprising ) in late 1930 by the Atayal people angry over their treatment while laboring in the burdensome job of camphor extraction, launched the last headhunting party in which over 150 Japanese officials were killed and beheaded during the opening ceremonies of a school.

Local initiatives include: motivational speaking tours and workshops on topics such as volunteerism, active lifestyles and healthy eating and bullying ; summer leadership camps ; the GO Local program, which works with underserved middle and high schools to engage students in local issues ; the Local Spotlight on Aboriginal education in partnership with the Martin Aboriginal Education Initiative ; and the We Schools in Action program, launched annually by We Day.

On 3 August 1835, after the small camp's imported food supplies ran low, William Todd recorded, " We have commenced eating Roots the same as the Natives do "-these were murnong or Yam Daisy roots ( Microseris lanceolata ) which were a staple of the local Aboriginal diet and would have been collected in large quantities by local Aboriginal women.

Traditional stories from many Native American, First Nations, and Aboriginal cultures include a deity whose name is translated into English as " Coyote ".

Many Native American languages and some languages in Africa and Aboriginal Australia simply do not have infinitives or verbal nouns.

The question is discussed at length in the article on Aboriginal title in the United States, as well as in articles on the American Indian Wars and the U. S. Supreme Court case Johnson v. M ' Intosh.

A central publication on this topic is the recent volume edited by Dixon and Aikhenvald ( 2007 ), examining the mismatch between prosodic-phonological and grammatical definitions of " word " in various Amazonian, Australian Aboriginal, Caucasian, Eskimo, Indo-European, Native North American, West African, and sign languages.

The Hopewell tradition is an Aboriginal culture that flourished along American rivers from 300 BCE to 500 CE.

The proclamation organized Great Britain's new North American empire and to stabilize relations between the British Crown and Aboriginal peoples through regulation of trade, settlement, and land purchases on the western frontier.

Prehistoric music thus technically includes all of the world's music that has existed before the advent of any currently extant historical sources concerning that music, for example, traditional Native American music of preliterate tribes and Australian Aboriginal music.

During World War II, the United States Navy used the names of rivers with Aboriginal American origins for an entire class of fleet oilers used to replenish vessels while underway at sea.

The racial makeup of the city was 90. 9 % White, 0. 4 % Black, 0. 5 % Aboriginal American, 0. 6 % Asian, 0. 7 % Pacific Islander, 4. 4 % some other race, and 2. 5 % from two or more races.

By the beginning of the 1960s, Australian classical music erupted with influences, with composers incorporating disparate elements into their work, ranging from Aboriginal and south-east Asian music and instruments, to American jazz and blues, to the belated discovery of European atonality and the avant-garde.

Its sound is comparable to the traditional chanting of some American Aboriginal cultures.

The racial makeup of the town was 84. 51 % White, 1. 71 % Black Canadian, 0. 08 % Aboriginal, 6. 66 % Asian Canadian, and 0. 84 % Latin American.

Another 1. 2 % of Canadians officially are Métis ( descendants of a historical population who were partially Aboriginal — also called " Indian " or " Native American " — and European, particularly French, English, Scottish, and Irish ethnic groups ).

The original 1636 Aboriginal title in the United States | Indian deed creating the State of Rhode Island signed by Native American Chief Canonicus to Roger Williams ( theologian ) | Roger Williams

Includes traditional African religions, Asian Shamanism, Native American religions, Austronesian and Australian Aboriginal traditions, Chinese folk religion, and postwar Shinto.

From 2001 to 2011, the American Grammy Awards presented an annual award for Best Native American Music Album, and the Canadian Juno Awards present an annual award for Aboriginal Recording of the Year.

North American Aboriginal Peoples were the first settlers around the lake, building communities including Dettah, which still exists today.

Aboriginal People and the Fur Trade: Proceedings of the 8th North American Fur Trade Conference, Akwesasne.

One of those problems is administrative: an Inuk in the United States could be considered " Native American ," " Alaskan Native or " Aboriginal American.