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Native Americans
Approximately 1% of the people living in the United States can be considered Native Americans, the term now preferred over the inaccurate Indians. Hundreds of Native American tribes, all speaking different languages, lived in North America before the coming of the "White Man," a term referring to settlers who came from Europe. Over the first few centuries of European exploration and settlement of North America, Native American people were either uprooted or else through war and disease wiped out by the whites. Despite this, hundreds of individual Native American nations survive on Indian reservations. Many of these tribes have a legal status separate from that of the United States. In some cases, Native Americans tribes have been able to use their special status to run businesses such as gambling casinos that, depending upon the American state involved, may be illegal for other Americans to run. Some tribes issue their own passports and driver's licenses. Members of some tribes hold American as well as tribal citizenship. In addition to the peoples formerly called "Indians," the term Native Americans also includes ethnic Hawaiians and Alaskan Eskimos and Inuit. Next Section: "White" Americans The American People: Chapter Home
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