| Native Americans are the indigenous
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| | Cubanacan (Cuba), and Haiti. It is said
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| peoples from the regions of North America
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| | that only 500 survived by the year 1550,
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| now encompassed by the continental United
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| | and the group was considered extinct
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| States, including parts of Alaska. They
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| | before 1650. Yet DNA studies show that
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| comprise a large number of distinct
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| | the genetic contribution of the Taino to
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| tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many
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| | that region continues, and the
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| of which are still enduring as political
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| | mitochondrial DNA studies of the Taino
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| communities. There is some controversy
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| | are said to show relationships to the
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| surrounding the names used: they are also
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| | Northern Indigenous Nations, such as
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| known as American Indians, Indians,
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| | Inuit (Eskimo) and others.[1]
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| Amerindians, Amerinds, or Indigenous,
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| | In the fifteenth century, Spaniards and
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| Aboriginal or Original Americans. In
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| | other Europeans brought horses to the
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| Canada they are known as First Nations.
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| | Americas. Some of these animals escaped
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| The U.S. states and several of the
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| | and began to breed and increase their
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| inhabited insular areas that are not part
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| | numbers in the wild. Ironically, the
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| of the continental U.S. also contain
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| | horse had originally evolved in the
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| indigenous groups. Some of these other
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| | Americas, but the early American horses
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| indigenous peoples in the United States,
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| | were game for early human hunters, and
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| including the Inuit, Yupik Eskimos, and
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| | went extinct about 7,000 BC, just after
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| Aleuts, are not always counted as Native
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| | the end of the last ice age. The
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| Americans, although the US Census 2000
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| | re-introduction of the horse had a
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| demographics listed "American Indian and
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| | profound impact on Native American
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| Alaskan Native" collectively. Native
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| | culture in the Great Plains of North
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| Hawaiians (also known as Kanaka Maoli and
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| | America. This new mode of travel made it
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| Kanaka ‘Oiwi) and various other Pacific
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| | possible for some tribes to greatly
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| Islander American peoples such as the
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| | expand their territories, exchange goods
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| Chamorros can also be considered Native
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| | with neighboring tribes, and more easily
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| American, but it is not common usually
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| | capture game.
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| due to their different historical origin
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| | Europeans also brought diseases, against
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| (i.e. Polynesian).
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| | which the Native Americans had no
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| The European colonization of the Americas
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| | immunity. Chicken pox and measles, though
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| decimated the populations and cultures of
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| | common and rarely fatal among Europeans,
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| the Native Americans. During the
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| | often proved fatal to Native Americans,
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| fifteenth through nineteenth centuries,
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| | and more dangerous diseases such as
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| their populations were ravaged by
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| | smallpox were especially deadly to Native
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| disease, displacement, enslavement,
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| | American populations.[2] It is difficult
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| internal warfare, as well as conflicts
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| | to estimate the total percentage of the
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| with European explorers and colonists.
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| | Native American population killed by
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| The first Native American group
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| | these diseases. Epidemics often
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| encountered by Christopher Columbus in
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| | immediately followed European
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| 1492, were the 250 thousand to 1 million
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| | exploration, sometimes destroying entire
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| Island Arawaks (more properly called the
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| | villages. Some historians estimate that
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| Taino) of Boriquen (Puerto Rico),
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| | up to 80% of some Native populations may
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| Dominican Republic (Quisqueya), the
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| | have died due to European diseases.
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