The European colonization of the Americas forever changed the lives and cultures of the indigenous peoples of the continent. In the 15th to 19th centuries, their populations were ravaged by the privations of displacement, by disease, and in many cases by warfare with European groups and enslavement by them. The first indigenous group encountered by Columbus were the 250,000 Arawaks of Hispaniola. Th ...

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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 - 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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The European colonization of the Americas forever changed the lives and cultures of the indigenous peoples of the continent. In the 15th to 19th centuries, their populations were ravaged by the privations of displacement, by disease, and in many cases by warfare with European groups and enslavement by them. The first indigenous group encountered by Columbus were the 250,000 Arawaks of Hispaniola. They were enslaved. The culture was extinct before 1650, and only ...

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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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The scope of this indigenous peoples of the Americas article encompasses the definitions of indigenous peoples and the Americas as established in their respective articles. Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Early history. 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 ...

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• Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Early history
• Indigenous peoples of the Americas - The Bering Strait Land Bridge 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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Native Americans in the United States (also Indians, American Indians, First Americans, Indigenous Peoples, Aboriginal Peoples, Aboriginal Americans, Amerindians, Amerinds, or Original Americans) are those indigenous peoples within the territory that is now encompassed by the continental United States, and their descendants in ...

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• Native Americans in the United States - Early history
• Native Americans in the United States - The Bering Strait Land Bridge theory
• Native Americans in the United States - Settling down
• Native Americans in the United States - European colonization
• Native Americans in the United States - Initial impacts
• Native Americans in the United States - Early relations
• Native Americans in the United States - Removal and reservations
• Native Americans in the United States - Current status
• Native Americans in the United States - Cultural aspects
• Native Americans in the United States - Society
• Native Americans in the United States - Religion
• Native Americans in the United States - Gender roles
• Native Americans in the United States - Music and art
• Native Americans in the United States - Economy
• Native Americans in the United States - Terminology differences
• Native Americans in the United States - Common usage in the U.S.
• Native Americans in the United States - Bibliography

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The term indigenous peoples has no universal, standard or fixed definition. Several widely-accepted formulations have been put forward by important internationally-recognised organizations, such as the United Nations, the International Labour Organization and the World Bank. Drawing on these, a contemporary working definition of "indigenous peoples" has criteria which would seek to include cultural groups (and their descendants) who have an historical continuity or association with a given region, or parts of a region, and who ...

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• Indigenous peoples - Characteristics of indigenous peoples: overview
• Indigenous peoples - Population and distribution
• Indigenous peoples - Common characteristics
• Indigenous peoples - Common concerns
• Indigenous peoples - Definitions
• Indigenous peoples - Historical indigenous cultures
• Indigenous peoples - Classical antiquity
• Indigenous peoples - European expansion and colonialism
• Indigenous peoples - Contemporary distribution and survey
• Indigenous peoples - Africa
• Indigenous peoples - the Americas
• Indigenous peoples - Asia
• Indigenous peoples - Europe
• Indigenous peoples - Oceania
• Indigenous peoples - Viewpoints on indigenous societies
• Indigenous peoples - Indigenous viewpoints
• Indigenous peoples - Non-indigenous viewpoints
• Indigenous peoples - Indigenous rights issues and concerns
• Indigenous peoples - Indigenous knowledge and culture
• Indigenous peoples - Representation
• Indigenous peoples - United Nations
• Indigenous peoples - Other accredited organizations
• Indigenous peoples - List of indigenous peoples

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Latin America Latin America is the parts of the Americas where Romance languages derived from Latin are officially or primarily spoken. Alternatively, Latin America is typically contrasted with Anglo-America where English, a Germanic language, predominates. See also Latino, Hispanic, Ibero-America, and Use of the word American. Definitions for what comprises Latin America may vary. From a sociopolitical perspective, including only independent countries, ...

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• Latin America - Etymology
• Latin America - Political Divisions
• Latin America - History
• Latin America - Demographics
• Latin America - Economy
• Latin America - Language
• Latin America - Religion
• Latin America - Music
• Latin America - Film

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Columbus Day is a holiday celebrated in many countries in the Americas, commemorating the date of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. Similar holidays, celebrated as Día de la Raza (Day of the Race) in many countries in Latin America, Discovery Day in the Bahamas, Hispanic Day in Spain, and with the recently new name Día de la Resistencia Indígena (Day of Indigenous Resistance) in Venezuela, commemorate the same event. Columbus Day - Columbus Day in the United StatesIncluding:

• Columbus Day - Columbus Day in the United States
• Columbus Day - Día de la Raza
• Columbus Day - Opposition

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Colonisation (or colonization) is the act where life forms move into a distant area where their kind is sparse or not yet existing at all and set up new settlements in the area. Colonisation applies to all life forms in a sense though it is most often used in reference to insects and humans. Insect colonisation varies from species to species though it most often involves a queen setting out from its parent colony and estab ...

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• Colonisation - Middle Ages
• Colonisation - 'Colonial Era'
• Colonisation - Modern colonisation
• Colonisation - Expatriates
• Colonisation - Guest workers
• Colonisation - Managers
• Colonisation - Coca-Cola colonisation
• Colonisation - Ocean colonization
• Colonisation - Space colonisation
• Colonisation - Galactic colonisation

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In politics and in history, a colony is a territory under the immediate political control of a geographically-distant state (or city, in ancient times). Some colonies were historically separate countries, while others were territories without definite statehood at the moment of colonization. The metropolitan state is the state that owns the colony. In Ancient Greece, the city that owned a colony was called the metropolis within its political organization. Mother country is the term used to refer to the metropolita ...

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Indigenous languages of the Americas (or Amerindian Languages) are spoken by indigenous peoples from the southern tip of South America to Alaska and Greenland, encompassing the land masses which constitute the Americas. These indigenous languages consist of dozens of distinct language families as well as many language isolates and unclassified languages. Many proposals to group these into higher-level families have been made by some linguists, but several of these have not been generally accepted. Indigenous languages of ...

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• Indigenous languages of the Americas - Language families & isolates by region
• Indigenous languages of the Americas - South America
• Indigenous languages of the Americas - Mexico and Central America
• Indigenous languages of the Americas - Greenland Canada & USA
• Indigenous languages of the Americas - Language stock proposals
• Indigenous languages of the Americas - Pidgins mixed languages & trade languages
• Indigenous languages of the Americas - Unattested languages
• Indigenous languages of the Americas - Linguistic areas
• Indigenous languages of the Americas - Bibilography

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The origins of these indigenous peoples are still a matter of dispute among archaeologists. The traditional view, which traces them to Siberian migration to America at the end of the last ice age, has been increasingly challenged by South American archaeologists. Indigenous peoples in Brazil - The Siberian Ice Age Hypothesis. Anthropological and genetic evidence indicates that most Native American peoples descended from migrant peoples from North Asia (Siberia) who entered America across the Bering Strait ...

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Indigenous peoples in Brazil, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - Origins, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - The Siberian Ice Age Hypothesis, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - The American Aborigines hypothesis, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - Archaeological remains, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - Brazilian Indians at the time of discovery, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - Tools, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - Ceramics, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - Economy, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - The Indians after the European colonization, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - First contacts, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - Slavery and the Bandeiras, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - The Jesuits, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - Indian wars, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - Government protection, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - Major ethnic groups

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The origins of these indigenous peoples are still a matter of dispute among archaeologists. The traditional view, which traces them to Siberian migration to America at the end of the last ice age, has been increasingly challenged by South American archaeologists. Indigenous peoples in Brazil - The Siberian Ice Age hypothesis. Anthropological and genetic evidence indicates that most Native American peoples descended from migrant peoples from North Asia (Siberia) who entered America across the Bering Strait ...

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Indigenous peoples in Brazil, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - Origins, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - The Siberian Ice Age hypothesis, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - The American Aborigines hypothesis, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - Archaeological remains, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - Brazilian Indians at the time of discovery, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - Tools, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - Ceramics, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - Economy, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - The Indians after the European colonization, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - First contacts, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - Slavery and the Bandeiras, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - The Jesuits, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - Indian wars, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - Government protection, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - Major ethnic groups

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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, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - Origins, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - The Siberian Ice Age Hypothesis, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - The American Aborigines hypothesis, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - Archaeological remains, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - Brazilian Indians at the time of discovery, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - Tools, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - Ceramics, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - Economy, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - The Indians after the European colonization, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - First contacts, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - Slavery and the Bandeiras, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - The Jesuits, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - Indian wars, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - Government protection, Indigenous peoples in Brazil - Major ethnic groups

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Thousands of years after the Indians arrived, the continent was rediscovered by Europeans. Initially the Vikings established a short-lived settlement in Newfoundland. Theories exist about other Old World discoveries of the east coast (or of the west coast by the Chinese), but none of these are considered proven. It was the later voyage of Christopher Columbus that led to extensive European colonization of the Americas and the marginalization of its inhabitants. The mass death of Native Americans from slavery, disease and war led to se ...

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History of the Americas, History of the Americas - Migration into the continents, History of the Americas - Before advanced civilizations, History of the Americas - Civilizations, History of the Americas - North America, History of the Americas - Mesoamerica, History of the Americas - South America, History of the Americas - European discovery and following colonization

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See major article: History of North America Living conditions were that of large stone apartment like adobe structures. They live in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, and possibly surrounding areas. ...

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The first phase of modern European activity in this region began with the oceanic crossings of Christopher Columbus (1492-1500), sponsored by Spain, whose original attempt was to find a new route to India and China, known as "the Indies". These were followed by other explorers such as John Cabot, sponsored by England, who came in search of the riches the Spanish had found, and also Pedro Alvares Cabral, who discovered Brazil for Portugal. Other settlers included Giovanni da Verrazano, sponsored by France, and, according to some, the German D ...

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Many of the other immigrants to the American colonies came for reasons that were economic. From the beginning of English settlements until the 1680’s, the main source of labour and a large portion of the immigrants were indentured servants looking for new life in the overseas colonies. For instance, during the seventeenth century, indentured servants constituted three-quarters of all European immigrants to the Chesapeake region. Most of the indentured servants were originally English farmers who had been pushed off their lands due to the e ...

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Exactly when the first group of people migrated into the America's is subject to much debate. Recent archaeological finds suggest multiple waves of migration, some of which may have taken place as early as 40,000 BC. All theories agree that the Inuit and related peoples arrived separately and at a much later date, probably around the 6th century, moving across the glaciers from Siberia into Canada. It is generally believed that the North American continent received the first people, Asian nomads who crossed the Bering Land Bridge. For ...

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History of the Americas, History of the Americas - Migration into the continents, History of the Americas - Before advanced civilizations, History of the Americas - Civilizations, History of the Americas - North America, History of the Americas - Mesoamerica, History of the Americas - South America, History of the Americas - European discovery and following colonization

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Other groups of colonists came to America searching for either an asylum to practice a religion without persecution or a refuge to begin a new and holier settlement where complete theological agreement could be found. After the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century and the new and seemingly radical doctrine of Calvinism, some Europeans began to drift away from their orthodox ways. Many more churches and denominations thus formed, leading to greater disagreement and tension among Europeans on the whole. Severe persecution did occur ...

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