Meaning of Native American | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A member of some Indigenous peoples of the Americas.
2. An Indigenous person of the contiguous United States.
3. A resident of the United States who is not an immigrant. (Often uncapitalized: native American.)
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Examples

“His name, as given on the records, was Joe Slater, or Slaader, and his appearance was that of the typical denizen of the Catskill Mountain region; one of those strange, repellent scions of a primitive colonial peasant stock whose isolation for nearly three centuries in the hilly fastnesses of a little-travelled countryside has caused them to sink to a kind of barbaric degeneracy, […] their general mental status is probably below that of any other section of the native American people.”

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