[PAR] [TLE] Native Americans in the United States [SEP] In the United States of America, Native Americans (also known as American Indians, Indigenous Americans or simply Indians; see §Terminology differences) are people who belong to one of the over 500 distinct Native American tribes that survive intact today as partially sovereign nations within the country's modern boundaries.  These tribes and bands are descended from the pre-Columbian indigenous population of North America. [PAR] [TLE] Dartmouth College [SEP] Dartmouth College ( ) is a private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States.  Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is the ninth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution.  Although founded as a school to educate Native Americans in Christian theology and the English way of life, Dartmouth primarily trained Congregationalist ministers throughout its early history before it gradually secularized, emerging at the turn of the 20th century from relative obscurity into national prominence.
[PAR] [TLE] Native Americans in the United States [ SEP ] In the United States of America , Native Americans ( also known as American Indians , Indigenous Americans or simply Indians ; see § Terminology differences ) are people who belong to one of the over 500 distinct Native American tribes that survive intact today as partially sovereign nations within the country 's modern boundaries . These tribes and bands are descended from the pre - Columbian indigenous population of North America . [PAR] [TLE] Dartmouth College [ SEP ] Dartmouth College ( ) is a private Ivy League research university in Hanover , New Hampshire , United States . Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock , it is the ninth - oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution . Although founded as a school to educate Native Americans in Christian theology and the English way of life , Dartmouth primarily trained Congregationalist ministers throughout its early history before it gradually secularized , emerging at the turn of the 20th century from relative obscurity into national prominence .
Dartmouth College was founded to educate which group of people descended from the pre-Columbian indigenous population of North America?
Dartmouth College was founded to educate which group of people descended from the pre - Columbian indigenous population of North America ?
Native Americans
Native Americans