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American Indian

NOUN
Native American
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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

As a filmmaker—one with carefully wrought ideas and a genuine cinematic palette—Redford lobbied for various environmental causes onscreen and off, including American Indian rights, offshore oil drilling and global warming.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2025

After lowering a torpedo filled with nitroglycerin into the belly of the earth, the muddied workers would detonate it, occasionally turning up a fragment of an ancient American Indian spear or an arrowhead.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann




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