American Indian

Example Sentences

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American Indian and Alaska Native people now have the highest cancer death rates in the country, with deaths from kidney, liver, stomach and cervical cancers about double that of white Americans.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2026

Previous Stanford-led research showed that long-term NO2 exposure is 60 percent higher in American Indian and Alaska Native households and 20 percent higher in Black and Hispanic or Latino households compared to the national average.

From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2025

The announcement follows a mid-November meeting with King and members of the Tribal Alliance Against Frauds, a US-based group dedicated to exposing people who falsely claim American Indian heritage.

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2025

No other historian has mined American Indian accounts—written, oral and pictographic—of a war with the U.S. government more thoroughly than Mr. Hedren has here.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

It was one of the hardest of all American Indian languages to learn.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac