See also: Archeology of the Americas, Models of migration to the New World Indigenous peoples of the Americas - The Bering Strait Land Bridge Theory. Based on anthropological and genetic evidence, scientists generally agree that most indigenous peoples of the Americas descend from people who migrated from Siberia across the Bering Strait, between 17,000–11,000 years ago. The exact epoch and route is still a matter of controversy, as is whether it happened at all. Until recently there was a ...

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Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Early history, Indigenous peoples of the Americas - The Bering Strait Land Bridge Theory, Indigenous peoples of the Americas - The Pre-Siberian Aborigines Theory, Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Migration waves, Indigenous peoples of the Americas - European colonization of the Americas, Indigenous peoples of the Americas - United States, Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Canada, Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Mexico, Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Belize, Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Guatemala, Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Brazil, Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Argentina, Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Other parts of the Americas, Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Statistics on indigenous populations, Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Cultural aspects, Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Gender, Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Music and art

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List of Indigenous people of the Americas - In Canada. Generally referred to as Aboriginal peoples in Canada when looking at the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples collectively. Gary Farmer, actor and filmmaker Graham Greene, actor Tomson Highway, playwright, novelist, and children's author. Louis Riel, politician Buffy Sainte-Marie, musician Cree Summer, voice actress Matthew Coon Come, Na ...

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Generally, ethnic groups desire that others use the name they give themselves. This preference has gained importance recently as a means of avoiding ethnic discrimination. The principle applies poorly to larger, multi-ethnic groups since different sub-groups often have incompatible preferences. English, like other natural languages, has traditionally ignored this principle, exerting its privilege to invent its own ethnic terms, such as German, Dutch, and Albanian, and disregarding the self-appellations and preferences of ...

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Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Early history, Indigenous peoples of the Americas - The Bering Strait Land Bridge Theory, Indigenous peoples of the Americas - The Pre-Siberian Aborigines Theory, Indigenous peoples of the Americas - European colonization of the Americas, Indigenous peoples of the Americas - United States, Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Canada, Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Mexico, Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Belize, Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Guatemala, Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Brazil, Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Argentina, Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Other parts of the Americas, Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Statistics on indigenous populations, Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Cultural aspects, Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Gender, Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Music and art, Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Controversial terminology, Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Canada and the North, Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Latin America

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Ecoregions, as defined by the science of ecology, are the borders of ecologically-sensitive districts, and may often converge with the borders of indigenous lands and lifeways. Indigenous languages tend to include terms or distinctions applicable to one ecoregion, where that language has originated. Supporters claim that ecoregional democracy can better preserve what remains of indigenous culture and indigenous language and lifeways, and permit new tribalists to live in better harmony with the lan ...

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Bioregional democracy, Bioregional democracy - Ecoregions and indigenous peoples, Bioregional democracy - Ecoregional consensus, Bioregional democracy - Ecoregions as habitats, Bioregional democracy - Ecoregions as trade barriers, Bioregional democracy - Ecoregions contain biological dangers to citizens, Bioregional democracy - Ecoregions as Political Feedback Against Unsustainable Developmentalism, Bioregional democracy - Language and biodiversity, Bioregional democracy - The Bioregional Revolutionary Movement

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Indigenous peoples in Brazil - Tools. The earliest Brazilian peoples used bone and chipped stone tools and weapons, similar to those found throughout the Americas at comparable dates. Eventually those were replaced by polished stone tools. Spears and bows were used for hunting, fishing, and war. Fishing was also done with bone fishing hooks, nets, and by poisoning. Indigenous peoples in Brazil - Ceramics. Pottery was introduced at a very early date; indeed the earliest c ...

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Indigenous peoples in Brazil - First contacts. When the Portuguese discoverers arrived for the first time in Brazil, in April 1500 they found, to their astonishment, a widely inhabited coastland, teeming with hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of indigenous people living in a "paradise" of natural riches. Pero Vaz de Caminha, the official scribe of Pedro Alvares Cabral, the commander of the discovery fleet which landed in the present state of Bahia, wrote a letter to the King of Portugal describing in glowing terms the beauty of the land and of its in ...

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Indigenous peoples in Brazil - First contacts. When the Portuguese discoverers arrived for the first time in Brazil, in April 1500 they found, to their astonishment, a widely inhabited coastland, teeming with hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of indigenous people living in a "paradise" of natural riches. Pero Vaz de Caminha, the official scribe of Pedro Alvares Cabral, the commander of the discovery fleet which landed in the present state of Bahia, wrote a letter to the King of Portugal describing in glowing terms the beauty of the land and of its in ...

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Treaties formed an important part of European colonization and, in many parts of the world, Europeans attempted to legitimize their sovereignty by signing treaties with indigenous peoples. In most cases these treaties were in extremely disadvantageous terms to the native people, who often did not appreciate the implications of what they were signing. In some rare cases, such as with Ethiopia and Qing Dynasty China, the local governments were able to use the treaties to at least mitigate the impact of European colonization. This involv ...

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The Australian Aboriginal population is for the most part urbanised, but a substantial number live in settlements (often located on the site of former church missions) in what are considered remote areas. The health and economic difficulties facing both groups are substantial. Aboriginal people, particularly youths, are substantially more likely to be imprisoned than the general population, and the rate of suicides in police custody remains quite high. Rates of unemployment, health problems and poverty are likewise higher than the general population; and school retention rate and universi ...

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Virtually all the surviving archaeological evidence about the pre-history of Brazil dates from the period after the Asian migratory waves. Brazilian Indians, unlike those in Mesoamerica and the western Andes, did not keep written records or erect stone monuments, and the humid climate and acidic soil have destroyed almost all traces of their material culture, including wood and bones. Therefore, what is known about the region's history before 1500 has been inferred and reconstructed from sma ...

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The most controversial question relating to the population history of American indigenous peoples is whether or not the natives of the Americas were the victims of genocide. After the Nazi-perpetrated Holocaust during World War II, genocide was defined (in part) as a crime "committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such." Does genocide apply to the experience of the indigenous peoples of the New World? Some scholars believe that it does. Historian David Stannard h ...

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Population history of American indigenous peoples - War and violence. While epidemic disease was by far the leading cause of the population decline of the American indigenous peoples after 1492, there were other contributing factors, all of them related to European contact and colonization. One of these factors was warfare. According to demographer Russell Thornton, although many lives were lost in wars over the centuries, and war sometimes contributed to the near extinction of certain tribes, warfare and death b ...

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The Australian Aboriginal population is for the most part urbanised, but a substantial number live in settlements (often located on the site of former church missions) in what are considered remote areas. The health and economic difficulties facing both groups are substantial. For example, life expectancy of Aboriginal people is about 20 years shorter than the wider Australian population. Aboriginal people, particularly youths, are substantially more likely to be imprisoned than the general population, and the rate of suicides in police cust ...

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The earliest European immigrants offered two principal explanations for the population decline of the American natives. The first was the brutal practices of the Spanish conquistadors, as recorded by the Spanish themselves, most notably by the Dominican friar Bartolomé de Las Casas, whose writings vividly depict atrocities committed on the natives by the Spanish. The second explanation was religious: God had removed the natives as part of His divine plan in order to make way for a new Christian civilization. Many natives of the Americas als ...

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Population history of American indigenous peoples, Population history of American indigenous peoples - Population overview, Population history of American indigenous peoples - Depopulation from disease, Population history of American indigenous peoples - Why were the diseases so deadly?, Population history of American indigenous peoples - Deliberate infection?, Population history of American indigenous peoples - Other causes of depopulation, Population history of American indigenous peoples - War and violence, Population history of American indigenous peoples - Exploitation, Population history of American indigenous peoples - Displacement and disruption, Population history of American indigenous peoples - The genocide debate, Population history of American indigenous peoples - Notes

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There is no clear or accepted racial origin of the indigenous people of Australia. Although they migrated to Australia through South-East Asia they are not related to any known Asian population. Nor are they related to the nearby peoples of Melanesia or Polynesia. There is some speculation that they are related to some racial groups in India, based on mitochondrial DNA evidence. In view of the very long time they have been in Australia, almost entirely isolated from other human populations, it is unlikely that they will be found to be clo ...

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The term "Indigenous Australians" encompasses a large number of diverse communities and societies, with notably different modes of subsistence, cultural practices, languages, technologies and inhabited environments. However, these peoples also share a larger set of traits, and are otherwise seen as being broadly related. A collective identity as Indigenous Australians is recognised and exists alongside the identity and memb ...

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At the time of first European contact, it is estimated that between 300,000 and 1 million people lived in Australia. Population levels are likely to have been largely stable for many thousands of years. The common perception that Aborigines were primarily desert dwellers is in fact false: the regions of heaviest indigenous population were the same temperate coastal regions that are currently the most heavily populated. The greatest population density was to be found in the southern and eastern regions of the continent, the Murray River valle ...

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A First Nation is a legally undefined term that came into common usage in the 1970s to replace the term "Indian band". A band is defined as "a body of Indians for whose collective use and benefit lands have been set apart or money is held by the Crown, or declared to be a band for the purposes of the Indian Act [1]." There are currently over 600 First Nations or bands in Canada. Roughly half of these ...

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First Nations, First Nations - Band First Nation and Indigenous peoples tribes or nations, First Nations - Geographic distribution, First Nations - Pacific coast and mountains, First Nations - Plains, First Nations - Northeast woodlands, First Nations - Atlantic coastal region, First Nations - St. Lawrence River Valley, First Nations - Canadian Arctic, First Nations - History, First Nations - Late 20th Century, First Nations - Early 21st Century

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Estimates of how many people were living in the Americas when Columbus arrived have varied tremendously; in the 20th century scholarly estimates ranged from a low of 8.4 million to a high of 112.5 million persons. Given the fragmentary nature of the evidence, precise pre-Columbian population figures are impossible to obtain; estimates are often produced by extrapolation from comparatively small bits of data. In 1976, geographer William Denevan used these various estimates to derive a "consensus count" of about 54 million people, although some recent estimates are lower than that.See also:

Population history of American indigenous peoples, Population history of American indigenous peoples - Population overview, Population history of American indigenous peoples - Depopulation from disease, Population history of American indigenous peoples - Why were the diseases so deadly?, Population history of American indigenous peoples - Deliberate infection?, Population history of American indigenous peoples - Other causes of depopulation, Population history of American indigenous peoples - War and violence, Population history of American indigenous peoples - Exploitation, Population history of American indigenous peoples - Displacement and disruption, Population history of American indigenous peoples - The genocide debate, Population history of American indigenous peoples - Notes

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There is no clear or accepted racial origin of the indigenous people of Australia. Although they migrated to Australia through South-East Asia they are not related to any known Asian population. Nor are they related to the nearby peoples of Melanesia or Polynesia. There is some speculation that they are related to some racial groups in India, based on mitochondrial DNA evidence. In view of the very long time they have been in Australia, almost entirely isolated from other hu ...

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The term Indigenous Australians encompasses a large number of diverse communities and societies, with notably different modes of subsistence, cultural practices, languages, technologies and inhabited environments. However, these peoples also share a larger set of traits, and are otherwise seen as being broadly related. A collective identity as Indigenous Australians is recognised and exists alongside the identity and memb ...

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Indigenous Australians, Indigenous Australians - Definitions, Indigenous Australians - Origins, Indigenous Australians - Before European settlement, Indigenous Australians - Impact of European settlement, Indigenous Australians - Adaptation, Indigenous Australians - The path to reconciliation: 1950-2005, Indigenous Australians - Issues facing Indigenous Australians today, Indigenous Australians - Health, Indigenous Australians - Education, Indigenous Australians - Crime, Indigenous Australians - Unemployment, Indigenous Australians - Substance abuse, Indigenous Australians - Mainland Australia, Indigenous Australians - Clans groups and communities, Indigenous Australians - Culture, Indigenous Australians - Mythology, Indigenous Australians - Languages, Indigenous Australians - Music, Indigenous Australians - Art, Indigenous Australians - Traditional recreation, Indigenous Australians - Tiwi Islands & Groote Eylandt, Indigenous Australians - Tasmania, Indigenous Australians - Torres Strait Islanders, Indigenous Australians - Population, Indigenous Australians - Prominent Indigenous Australians

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At the time of first European contact, it is estimated that between 300,000 and 1 million people lived in Australia. Population levels are likely to have been largely stable for many thousands of years. The common perception that Aborigines were primarily desert dwellers is in fact false: the regions of heaviest indigenous population were the same temperate coastal regions that are currently the most heavily populated. The greatest population density was to be found in the southern and eastern regions of the continent, the Murray River valle ...

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Indigenous Australians, Indigenous Australians - Definitions, Indigenous Australians - Origins, Indigenous Australians - Before European settlement, Indigenous Australians - Impact of European settlement, Indigenous Australians - Adaptation, Indigenous Australians - The path to reconciliation: 1950-2005, Indigenous Australians - Issues facing Indigenous Australians today, Indigenous Australians - Health, Indigenous Australians - Education, Indigenous Australians - Crime, Indigenous Australians - Unemployment, Indigenous Australians - Substance abuse, Indigenous Australians - Mainland Australia, Indigenous Australians - Clans groups and communities, Indigenous Australians - Culture, Indigenous Australians - Mythology, Indigenous Australians - Languages, Indigenous Australians - Music, Indigenous Australians - Art, Indigenous Australians - Traditional recreation, Indigenous Australians - Tiwi Islands & Groote Eylandt, Indigenous Australians - Tasmania, Indigenous Australians - Torres Strait Islanders, Indigenous Australians - Population, Indigenous Australians - Prominent Indigenous Australians

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