Nativity is the general time and place of a person's birth and early years. The term has evolved a strong association, at least in Western civilization through the enfluences of Christianity to the nativity of Jesus of Nazareth iconified as simply The Nativity. The term can also apply to cultural appropriation to identify the specific and general situation, as in Native land, language, political system and environment of a person. In this sense, a person's nativity is construed (or misconstrued) to form a basis for a general im ...

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• Nativity - The Nativity of Jesus

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Nativism, Nativism - Political Nativism, Nativism - Psychological Nativism, Nativism - Reference

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Nativism is a hostile and defensive reaction to the flux of immigration. Though it surfaced first, gained a name and affected politics in mid-19th century United States, recognizably nativist movements have since arisen among the Boers of South Africa, and in the 20th century in Australia and Britain. In American history, nativism was always associated with fears that certain new immigrants might inject political and cultura ...

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Nativism, Nativism - Political Nativism, Nativism - Psychological Nativism, Nativism - Reference

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Some controversy over the term Native or Native American arises from the fact that in common usage the word "native" means "born in", and thus the term "native American" could be equally applicable to anyone born into an "American" country. This confusion arises out of a failure to recognize the distinction between: (a) the common usage of the adjective "native", and (b) the usage of ...

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Native American name controversy, Native American name controversy - Indian, Native American name controversy - American, Native American name controversy - Native, Native American name controversy - Amerindian/Amerind, Native American name controversy - Indigenous, Native American name controversy - Aboriginal, Native American name controversy - Languages and cultures, Native American name controversy - Canada, Native American name controversy - Mexico, Native American name controversy - United States

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The Australian Natives' Association (ANA), a mutual society was founded in Melbourne, Australia in April 1871. The Association played a leading role in the movement for Australian federation in the last 20 years of the 19th century. In 1900 it had a membership of 17,000, mainly in Victoria. The ANA provided sickness, medical and funeral cover. However, it threw off the secrecy and ritual of ...

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• Australian Natives Association - External reference

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Alaska Natives are indigenous peoples who live in what is now the U.S. state of Alaska. They include Inuit (specifically Inupiat) and Yupik Eskimos, Aleuts, and several Native American peoples. Alaska Natives - History. In 1918 the Alaska Native Brotherhood was founded. In 1971 Congress passed the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act which settled land and financial claims and provided for the establishment of 13 Alaska Native Regional Corporations to administer those claims. Similar to the status of the Can ...

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• Alaska Natives - History
• Alaska Natives - Cultures

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Native Americans is a term which has several different common meanings and scope, according to regional use and context. See the below articles, which describe various indigenous peoples in the following contexts: Indigenous peoples of the Americas, natives of the entire American supercontinent Indigenous peoples in the United States, natives of the United States and its territories Native Americans in the United States, natives of the continental United States only; equivalent to American Indians ...

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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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Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR) is an independent, national network of mainly non-Indigenous organisations and individuals working in support of justice for Indigenous Australians. Statement of Purpose To generate in Australia a moral and legal recognition of and respect for the distinctive status of Indigenous Australians as First Peoples. Recognition of Indigenous Australians' rights, which include self-determination, their relationships to land and the maintenance and growth of their ...

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The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act was signed into law on December 18, 1971, and the largest land claims settlement in United States history was concluded. The ANCSA, as it is commonly known, did the following: Native claims to almost all of Alaska were extinguished in exchange for approximately one-ninth of the state's land plus $962.5 million in compensation. Of the latter, $462.5 million was to come from the federal treasury and the rest from oil revenue-sharing. Settlement benefits would accrue ...

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• Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act - The Alaska Native Corporations

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Identifying and classifying native Hawaiian subgroups has become a delicate issue among native Hawaiians. Different government agencies have different methods of classifying native Hawaiians. [1]. However, it is widely accepted that such classifications are necessary to facilitate laws, trusts and wills governing native Hawaiian programs. For example, programs administered by the Hawaiʻi State Department of Hawaiian Homelands are legally bound by trusts to provide servi ...

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Native Hawaiians, Native Hawaiians - Native Hawaiian subgroups, Native Hawaiians - Population, Native Hawaiians - Language, Native Hawaiians - Education, Native Hawaiians - Culture & arts, Native Hawaiians - Celebrations, Native Hawaiians - History, Native Hawaiians - Hawaiiana revival, Native Hawaiians - Office of Hawaiian Affairs OHA, Native Hawaiians - Federal developments, Native Hawaiians - Native American Programs Act, Native Hawaiians - United States apology resolution, Native Hawaiians - Akaka Bill, Native Hawaiians - Notable native Hawaiians

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At the time of Captain Cook's arrival, native Hawaiians numbered over 800,000. Over the span of the first century after first contact, native Hawaiians declined in population by 80%, dying from diseases introduced to the islands. Native Hawaiians did not have immunity to influenza, measles, and whooping cough, among others. The census of 1900 identified only 40,000 native Hawaiians. The census of 2000 identified 400,000 native Hawaiians, demonstrating a trend of dramat ...

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Native Hawaiians, Native Hawaiians - Native Hawaiian subgroups, Native Hawaiians - Population, Native Hawaiians - Language, Native Hawaiians - Education, Native Hawaiians - Culture & arts, Native Hawaiians - Celebrations, Native Hawaiians - History, Native Hawaiians - Hawaiiana revival, Native Hawaiians - Office of Hawaiian Affairs OHA, Native Hawaiians - Federal developments, Native Hawaiians - Native American Programs Act, Native Hawaiians - United States apology resolution, Native Hawaiians - Akaka Bill, Native Hawaiians - Notable native Hawaiians

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Practically all native Hawaiians are fluent in the English language as a result of both the emphasis the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi put on learning English, as well as over a century of being an integral part of the United States of America. Some native Hawaiians, as well as non-native Hawaiians have learned the native Hawaiian language as a second language. As with their neighbors and peers of other races, native Hawaiians also often speak Hawaiian Pidgin developed during Hawaiʻi's plantation era in the l ...

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Native Hawaiians, Native Hawaiians - Native Hawaiian subgroups, Native Hawaiians - Population, Native Hawaiians - Language, Native Hawaiians - Education, Native Hawaiians - Culture & arts, Native Hawaiians - Celebrations, Native Hawaiians - History, Native Hawaiians - Hawaiiana revival, Native Hawaiians - Office of Hawaiian Affairs OHA, Native Hawaiians - Federal developments, Native Hawaiians - Native American Programs Act, Native Hawaiians - United States apology resolution, Native Hawaiians - Akaka Bill, Native Hawaiians - Notable native Hawaiians

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Native Hawaiians are completely integrated into American society and culture, and like all other children in Hawaiʻi, they are publicly educated by the Hawaiʻi State Department of Education, the largest and most centralized of the United States educational system. Hawaiʻi is the only state without local community control of schools. Under the administration of Governor Benjamin J. Cayetano (D-HI) from 1994 to 2002, the state's educational system establi ...

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Native Hawaiians, Native Hawaiians - Native Hawaiian subgroups, Native Hawaiians - Population, Native Hawaiians - Language, Native Hawaiians - Education, Native Hawaiians - Culture & arts, Native Hawaiians - Celebrations, Native Hawaiians - History, Native Hawaiians - Hawaiiana revival, Native Hawaiians - Office of Hawaiian Affairs OHA, Native Hawaiians - Federal developments, Native Hawaiians - Native American Programs Act, Native Hawaiians - United States apology resolution, Native Hawaiians - Akaka Bill, Native Hawaiians - Notable native Hawaiians

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Native Hawaiians - Native American Programs Act. In 1974, the Native American Programs Act was amended to include native Hawaiians as a category of indigenous people of the United States. This paved the way for native Hawaiians to become eligible for some, but not all, federal assistance programs originally meant for Native Americans. In order to become eligible for al ...

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Native Hawaiians, Native Hawaiians - Native Hawaiian subgroups, Native Hawaiians - Population, Native Hawaiians - Language, Native Hawaiians - Education, Native Hawaiians - Culture & arts, Native Hawaiians - Celebrations, Native Hawaiians - History, Native Hawaiians - Hawaiiana revival, Native Hawaiians - Office of Hawaiian Affairs OHA, Native Hawaiians - Federal developments, Native Hawaiians - Native American Programs Act, Native Hawaiians - United States apology resolution, Native Hawaiians - Akaka Bill, Native Hawaiians - Notable native Hawaiians

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Native Hawaiian culture saw a revival in recent years as an outgrowth of decisions made at the 1978 Hawaiʻi State Constitutional Convention, held exactly 200 years after the arrival of Captain Cook. At the convention, the Hawaiʻi state government committed itself to a progressive study and preservation of native Hawaiian culture, history and language. A comprehensive Hawaiian culture curriculum was introduced into the State of Hawaiʻi's public el ...

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Native Hawaiians, Native Hawaiians - Native Hawaiian subgroups, Native Hawaiians - Population, Native Hawaiians - Language, Native Hawaiians - Education, Native Hawaiians - Culture & arts, Native Hawaiians - Celebrations, Native Hawaiians - History, Native Hawaiians - Hawaiiana revival, Native Hawaiians - Office of Hawaiian Affairs OHA, Native Hawaiians - Federal developments, Native Hawaiians - Native American Programs Act, Native Hawaiians - United States apology resolution, Native Hawaiians - Akaka Bill, Native Hawaiians - Notable native Hawaiians

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The pre-conquest cuisine of the Native Americans of Meso-America made a major contribution to shaping modern-day Mexican cuisine. The cultures involved included the Aztec, Maya, Olmec, and many more (see the List_of_pre-Columbian_civilizations). Native American cuisine - Some Known Dishes. Tamales Tlacoyos Pozole Mole Mezcal Tortillas Champurrado, a chocolate drink [4] Pejelagarto, a fish with an alig ...

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Native American cuisine, Native American cuisine - Native American Cuisine of the United States, Native American cuisine - Some Known Dishes, Native American cuisine - Native American Cuisine of Meso-America, Native American cuisine - Some Known Dishes, Native American cuisine - Native American Cuisine of South America, Native American cuisine - Crops and ingredients, Native American cuisine - Bibliography

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Only in 1992 was the assumption of terra nullius struck down by the High Court in the Mabo decision, which granted Murray Island in the Torres Strait to its native residents. As Justice Brennan stated in Mabo (No. 2), "native title has its origin and is given its content by the traditional laws acknowledged by and the customs observed by the indigenous inhabitants of a territory". ...

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Native title, Native title - Before Mabo, Native title - Mabo, Native title - Native Title Act 1993, Native title - Pastoral leases

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The Native American flute is the only flute in the world constructed with two air chambers - there is a wall inside the flute between the top (slow) air chamber and the bottom chamber which has the whistle and finger holes. The top chamber also serves as a secondary resonator, which gives the flute its distinctive sound. There is a hole at the bottom of the "slow" air chamber and a (generally) square hole at the top of the playing chamber. A block (or "bird") is tied on top of the flute. In a plains flute, a spacer is added or a channel is c ...

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Native American flute, Native American flute - History, Native American flute - Construction, Native American flute - Woods, Native American flute - Variations, Native American flute - Music, Native American flute - Fingering

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