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Native American

[ney-tiv uh-mer-i-kuhn] / ˈneɪ tɪv əˈmɛr ɪ kən /
NOUN
aboriginal American
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Even so, prominent backers in both parties express confidence that the program is here to stay in a state where Hispanic and Native-American residents together account for more than 60 percent of the population.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2022

“No one I’ve ever known has done anything like that. You go to a Native-American pow wow and you don’t hear anything like this.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2021

They included the story of Rosa Parks, an image of Native-American leaders standing in front of Mount Rushmore and an atom bomb mushroom cloud.

From Fox News • Apr. 1, 2019

Ms Davids could become the first Native-American woman elected to Congress.

From BBC • Oct. 16, 2018

The Native-American Party was formed, in 1841, "to prevent the union of Church and State," and to "keep the Bible in the schools."

From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson



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