Native Chinese cuisine makes frequent use of Asian leaf vegetables like bok choy and kai-lan and puts a greater emphasis on fresh meat and seafood.

The racial makeup of Berkeley was 66, 996 ( 59. 5 %) White, 11, 241 ( 10. 0 %) Black or African American, 479 ( 0. 4 %) Native American, 21, 690 ( 19. 3 %) Asian ( 8. 4 % Chinese, 2. 4 % Indian, 2. 1 % Korean, 1. 6 % Japanese, 1. 5 % Filipino, 1. 0 % Vietnamese, 0. 3 % Pakistani, 0. 3 % Thai, 0. 2 % Nepalese ), 186 ( 0. 2 %) Pacific Islander, 4, 994 ( 4. 4 %) from other races, and 6, 994 ( 6. 2 %) from two or more races.

Native Chinese astronomy flourished during the Song Dynasty, and during the Yuan Dynasty became increasingly influenced by medieval Islamic astronomy.

Many faiths around the world — from Japanese Shinto and Chinese traditional religion, to certain African practices and the faiths derived from those in the Caribbean, to Native American beliefs — hold that ancestral or household spirits offer daily protection and blessings.

These people are not the Native American equivalent of the Chinese " barefoot doctors ", herbalists, nor of the emergency medical technicians who ride rescue vehicles.

Native resentment against the numerous small businesses being run by Chinese led to the rioting.

* July 4 – The SN 1054 supernova is recorded by the Chinese, Arab and possibly Native Americans near the star ζ Tauri.

A handful of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts are no longer aired on American television nor are they available for sale by Warner Bros. because of the racial stereotypes of black people, Jews, Native Americans, Asians such as Japanese ( especially during WWII, as in Tokio Jokio and Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips ), Chinese and Germans included in some of the cartoons.

The racial makeup of Oakland was 134, 925 ( 34. 5 %) White, 109, 471 ( 28. 0 %) African American, 3, 040 ( 0. 8 %) Native American, 65, 811 ( 16. 8 %) Asian ( 8. 7 % Chinese, 2. 2 % Vietnamese, 1. 6 % Filipino, 0. 7 % Cambodian, 0. 7 % Laotian, 0. 6 % Korean, 0. 5 % Japanese, 0. 5 % Indian ), 2, 222 ( 0. 6 %) Pacific Islander ( 0. 3 % Tongan ), 53, 378 ( 13. 7 %) from other races, and 21, 877 ( 5. 6 %) from two or more races.

Paramaribo is famed for its diverse ethnic makeup, including Creoles, Hindustani, East Indians, Maroons, Javanese, Portuguese, Native Americans, Levantine, Chinese, and other Europeans ( primarily of Dutch and English descent ).

The racial makeup of Vacaville was 61, 301 ( 66. 3 %) White, 9, 510 ( 10. 3 %) African American, 846 ( 0. 9 %) Native American, 5, 606 ( 6. 1 %) Asian ( 3. 3 % Filipino, 0. 7 % Chinese, 0. 6 % Indian, 0. 5 % Japanese, 0. 3 % Vietnamese, 0. 3 % Korean ), 532 ( 0. 6 %) Pacific Islander, 8, 136 ( 8. 8 %) from other races, and 6, 497 ( 7. 0 %) from two or more races.

The racial makeup of Fairfield was 48, 407 ( 46. 0 %) White, 16, 586 ( 15. 7 %) African American, 869 ( 0. 8 %) Native American, 15, 700 ( 14. 9 %) Asian ( 9. 1 % Filipino, 1. 8 % Indian, 1. 0 % Chinese, 0. 6 % Vietnamese, 0. 6 % Japanese, 0. 4 % Korean, 0. 3 % Laotian, 0. 2 % Thai, 0. 1 % Pakistani ), 1, 149 ( 1. 1 %) Pacific Islander, 13, 301 ( 12. 6 %) from other races, and 9, 309 ( 8. 8 %) from two or more races.

The Hungarian Turul, the Ziz or Bar Juchne of Jewish tradition, the Fijian kanivatu, Finnish kokko, the Chinese peng and the Thunderbird of Native American tradition are also giant birds.

The racial makeup of Stanislaus County was 337, 342 ( 65. 6 %) White, 14, 721 ( 2. 9 %) African American, 5, 902 ( 1. 1 %) Native American, 26, 090 ( 5. 1 %) Asian ( 1. 5 % Indian, 1. 1 % Filipino, 0. 7 % Cambodian, 0. 5 % Chinese, 0. 3 % Vietnamese, 0. 3 % Laotian, 0. 1 % Japanese, 0. 1 % Korean, 0. 1 % Cambodian ), 3, 401 ( 0. 7 %) Pacific Islander, 99, 210 ( 19. 3 %) from other races, and 27, 787 ( 5. 4 %) from two or more races ; Hispanic or Latino of any race were 215, 658 persons ( 41. 9 %); 37. 6 % of Stanislaus County is Mexican, 0. 6 % Puerto Rican, 0. 5 % Salvadoran, 0. 2 % Nicaraguan, and 0. 2 % Guatemalan.

In terms of race and ethnicity, Worcester's population was 69. 4 % White, 11. 6 % Black or African American, 0. 4 % American Indian and Alaska Native, 6. 1 % Asian ( 3. 0 % Vietnamese, 0. 9 % Chinese, and 0. 8 % Asian Indian ), < 0. 1 % Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, 8. 4 % from Some Other Race, and 4. 0 % from Two or More Races ( 1. 2 % White and Black or African American ; 1. 0 % White and Some Other Race ).

Compare this to the racial makeup of Oakland, which was 134, 925 ( 34. 5 %) White, 109, 471 ( 28. 0 %) African American, 3, 040 ( 0. 8 %) Native American, 65, 811 ( 16. 8 %) Asian ( 8. 7 % Chinese, 2. 2 % Vietnamese, 1. 6 % Filipino, 0. 7 % Cambodian, 0. 7 % Laotian, 0. 6 % Korean, 0. 5 % Japanese, 0. 5 % Indian ), 2, 222 ( 0. 6 %) Pacific Islander ( 0. 3 % Tongan ), 53, 378 ( 13. 7 %) from other races, and 21, 877 ( 5. 6 %) from two or more races.

The racial makeup of Concord was 78, 767 ( 64. 5 %) White, 4, 371 ( 3. 6 %) African American, 852 ( 0. 7 %) Native American, 13, 538 ( 11. 1 %) Asian ( 4. 4 % Filipino, 2. 4 % Chinese, 1. 3 % Indian, 0. 7 % Vietnamese, 0. 6 % Japanese, 0. 6 % Korean, 1. 2 % Other ), 816 ( 0. 7 %) Pacific Islander, 15, 969 ( 13. 1 %) from other races, and 7, 754 ( 6. 4 %) from two or more races.

The racial makeup of El Monte was 44, 058 ( 38. 8 %) White, 870 ( 0. 8 %) African American, 1, 083 ( 1. 0 %) Native American, 28, 503 ( 25. 1 %) Asian ( 13. 5 % Chinese, 7. 4 % Vietnamese, 1. 2 % Filipino, 0. 4 % Cambodian, 0. 2 % Burmese, 0. 2 % Japanese, 0. 2 % Korean, 0. 2 % Indian, 0. 2 % Thai ), 131 ( 0. 1 %) Pacific Islander, 35, 205 ( 31. 0 %) from other races, and 3, 625 ( 3. 2 %) from two or more races.

The racial makeup of Palmdale was 74, 901 ( 49. 0 %) White, 22, 677 ( 14. 8 %) African American, 1, 316 ( 0. 9 %) Native American, 6, 548 ( 4. 3 %) Asian ( 2. 2 % Filipino, 0. 4 % Indian, 0. 4 % Korean, 0. 3 % Chinese, 0. 3 % Vietnamese, 0. 2 % Japanese ), 335 ( 0. 2 %) Pacific Islander, 38, 773 ( 25. 4 %) from other races, and 8, 200 ( 5. 4 %) from two or more races.

The racial and ethnic composition of the population was 85. 7 % non-Hispanic white, 0. 8 % black or African American, 0. 3 % Native American, 1. 0 % Chinese, 2. 6 % other Asian, 0. 1 % Pacific Islander, 0. 2 % non-Hispanic reporting some other race, 2. 9 % from two or more races and 7. 3 % Hispanic or Latino.

The racial makeup of Carmichael was 49, 776 ( 80. 6 %) White, 3, 972 ( 5. 8 %) African American, 546 ( 0. 9 %) Native American, 2, 653 ( 4. 3 %) Asian ( 0. 9 % Filipino, 0. 9 % Chinese, 0. 6 % Korean, 0. 5 % Japanese, 0. 5 % Indian, 0. 3 % Vietnamese, 0. 6 % Other ), 287 ( 0. 5 %) Pacific Islander, 2, 035 ( 3. 3 %) from other races, and 3, 493 ( 5. 7 %) from two or more races.

The racial makeup of Citrus Heights was 66, 856 ( 80. 3 %) White, 2, 751 ( 3. 3 %) African American, 753 ( 0. 9 %) Native American, 2, 714 ( 3. 3 %) Asian ( 1. 2 % Filipino, 0. 4 % Indian, 0. 4 % Chinese, 0. 3 % Japanese, 0. 2 % Vietnamese, 0. 4 % Other ), 363 ( 0. 4 %) Pacific Islander, 5, 348 ( 6. 4 %) from other races, and 4, 516 ( 5. 4 %) from two or more races.

The racial makeup of Rancho Cordova was 39, 123 ( 60. 4 %) White, 8, 561 ( 13. 1 %) African American, 668 ( 1. 0 %) Native American, 7, 831 ( 12. 1 %) Asian ( 3. 6 % Filipino, 2. 0 % Indian, 1. 6 % Vietnamese, 1. 4 % Chinese, 1. 0 % Korean, 0. 4 % Japanese, 2. 0 % Other ), 556 ( 0. 9 %) Pacific Islander, 5, 517 ( 8. 5 %) from other races, and 4, 520 ( 7. 0 %) from two or more races.

* Many traditional Native American religions are fundamentally animistic.

Many religious mythologies had a view of Earth as being a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts ( e. g. some Native American religions and various forms of shamanism ).

While much Native American spiritualism exists in a tribal-cultural continuum, and as such cannot be easily separated from tribal identity itself, certain other more clearly defined movements have arisen among " traditional " Native American practitioners, these being identifiable as " religions " in the clinical sense.

Many traditional and folk religions including African traditional religions and Native American religions can be seen as pantheistic, or a mixture of pantheism and other doctrines such as polytheism and animism.

* The Indian Religious Code is created which forbids Native Americans to practice their religions.

In efforts to assimilate the Native Americans to European-American ways, in 1898, the government dismantled tribal governments and outlawed the practice of traditional Indian religions.

She was frequently visited by Native American ceremonial groups because of sacred symbolism of white buffaloes in many Native American religions.

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

The religious history of the United States before the colonial period was dominated by Native American religions.

A white buffalo or white bison is an American bison possessing white fur, and is considered sacred or spiritually significant in several Native American religions ; therefore, such buffalo are often visited for prayer and other religious rituals.

The world tree is a motif present in several religions and mythologies, particularly Indo-European religions, Siberian religions, and Native American religions.

This tipi is used for Peyote ceremonies in the Native American Church, one of the main religions affected by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act applies to all religions, but is most pertinent to Native American religions that are burdened by increasing expansion of government projects onto sacred land.

This, along with peyote use are the main parts of Native American religions that are often left unprotected.

It was also found that Jewish, Muslim, and Native American religions, which make up only three percent of church membership in the U. S., make up 18 percent of the cases involving the free exercise of religion.

Douglass was a firm believer in the equality of all people, whether black, female, Native American, or recent immigrant, famously quoted as saying, " I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.

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

" Native American communities that lack entrepreneurial traditions and recent experiences typically do not provide the support that entrepreneurs need to thrive.

Problems in classification are compounded by different qualifications for tribal membership by different tribes, a fear of registering with a tribe because it is seen as a method of control initiated by the federal government, and the problem of individuals who are of 100 % Native American background who, because of their mixed tribal heritage, do not qualify to belong to any individual tribe.

They are used in shamanic forms of ritual healing and divination, in initiation rites, and in the religious rituals of syncretistic movements such as União do Vegetal, Santo Daime, Temple of the True Inner Light, and the Native American Church.

However, bears do not have long tails, and Jewish astronomers considered Alioth, Mizar, and Alkaid instead to be either three cubs following their mother, and the Native Americans as three hunters.

Such people emphasize the American tradition of always returning governance back to the indigenous people, even allowing Native Americans to have sovereign nations within American borders, which are focused on decolonization, and insisting on a rejection of previous isolationist policies, do not constitute the embrace of imperialism.

However, many consider the term " entheogen " best reserved for religious and spiritual usage, such as certain Native American churches do with the peyote sacrament, and " psychedelic " left to describe those who are using these drugs for recreation, psychotherapy, physical healing, or creative problem solving.

* Fundação Nacional do Índio, National Foundation of the Native American

* Ramona, a novel that attempted to do for Native Americans in California what Uncle Tom's Cabin had done for African Americans

Animals figure significantly in Choctaw mythology, as they do in most Native American myth cycles.

To further investigate the mystery of the Kennewick man and determine whether the skeleton belonged to the Umatilla Native American tribe, an extraction of DNA was analyzed, and according to the report of the scientists doing the DNA analysis: " available technology and protocols do not allow the analysis of ancient DNA from these remains.

Skulls older than 8, 000 years old have been found to possess greater physical diversity than do those of modern Native Americans.

This speculation ( also paralleled in Philip K. Dick's posthumously published The Transmigration of Timothy Archer ) is supported in a wider cultural context when compared with the praise of Haoma in the Rigveda, Mexican praise of teonanácatl, the peyote sacrament of the Native American Church, and the Holy Ayahuasca used in the ritual of the União do Vegetal and Santo Daime.

The local Native Americans of the Maui do and the Stampfli family had made relationships.

* 1745-David Brainerd, after preaching to Native Americans in December, wrote about the response: " They soon came in, one after another ; with tears in their eyes, to know, what they should do to be saved.

Mestizo are people of mixed white and indigenous, usually Amerindian ancestry, who do not self-identify as indigenous peoples or Native Americans.

Creoles do not consider themselves part of the black culture, but rather a mixture of Haitian, Native American, French, and Spanish known as Quadronne or " four-way ".

Zawinul and Shorter's continued dominance of the American jazz scene was emphasized when Tale Spinnin won the Down Beat best album award for 1975 ( the third Weather Report album to do so ) and Native Dancer was the runner-up.

According to an autosomal DNA study from 2008, the ancestral composition of Mato Grosso do Sul is 73, 60 % European, 13, 90 % African and 12, 40 % Native American.

It was also racially integrated, and enrolled its first African-American student and two Native American students in the 1850s, becoming the second college in the nation to do so.

Scholars do not know which, if any Native American groups, are the living descendants of the people who originally built and lived at the Mound site, although many are plausible.

In a decision was written by Judge Ronald M. Gould, the court denies the request of the Nez Perce, Umatilla, Colville, and Yakama Indian tribes, which wanted the bones to be turned over to them for burial, holding that the remains do not fall under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act and can be studied under the Archaeological Resources Protection Act.