Title: Are Native Americans considered a separate ethnicity? - Quora
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Are Native Americans considered a separate ethnicity?
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Content: We’re a nation of immigrants; even those whose ancestors have lived on this continent for over two thousand years have still, by recent history, moved and been-moved so often as to have been impacted culturally by the uprooting process to at least the same degree as the colonists and immigrants themselves were. We don’t always know what to call our communities, but the concepts of ethnicity and race remain distinct. ———
As it pertains to Native Americans, it could perhaps be said that there is enough shared history — a litany of crimes across time including cultural sidelining, theft of resources, development neglect, outright direct genocide, culturally inappropriate social engineering, sniper feuds with colonial ethnicities, and direct mismanagement of treaty rights at the hands of the federal government — enough shared history to make “Native American” a coherent cultural category. Given the number of Native Americans with heritage in multiple tribes, that is not a phenomenon to outright discount. But at the same time, for many Native ethnicities, the social architecture still exists (scattered throughout the country, but not at all disappeared) necessary to maintain the cultural traditions that must define each ethnicity one from another. That is true just as surely for the Native ethnicities as for Norwegian or Swedish. Ethnicity can be a complicated subject, but it is not correct to describe “Native American” as a single separate ethnicity; there are better terms to use. Daniel Valencia
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Yes because they are a different race also each native group has their own identity, original language and culture each with their various customs, traditions, ceremonies and history some groups of a particular region may have some similarities but are unique in their own way example the Navajo and Apache share the region with the Pueblo groups such as Zuni, Hopi,acoma ect.. but the Navajo and Apache finally settled there in the early 1300’s but Pueblo people had been there long before different permanent dwellings more agricultural in subsistence had longer trade relations with other groups a
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Yes because they are a different race also each native group has their own identity, original language and culture each with their various customs, traditions, ceremonies and history some groups of a particular region may have some similarities but are unique in their own way example the Navajo and Apache share the region with the Pueblo groups such as Zuni, Hopi,acoma ect.. but the Navajo and Apache finally settled there in the early 1300’s but Pueblo people had been there long before different permanent dwellings more agricultural in subsistence had longer trade relations with other groups also had a bit of the Spanish mission influence in the 1600’s modified into their religious practice
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