An indigenous person of the Western Hemisphere, which includes the North and South
American continents, as well as the West Indies, and even Greenland. Believed to have crossed over the Berring Strait during the last Ice Age. They produced great and technologically advanced civilizations such as the Mayans, the Aztecs, the Incas, and many others.
Also known as American
Indian, Amerind (also their language group), Amerindian, & Native American Indian etc
Most (north of the Rio Grande in particular) were killed off by various means.
The
people of Mexico, ranked by wealth and influence (at least for the first 3), from least to most, are somthing like 20% Native
American, 70% Mestizo (a mixture of White, typically Mediteranian Spanish European, and Native
American), 7% White\European, and 3% Other (typically of or containing African and or Middle Eastern Ancestry)
So my point is, when
people immigrate from Mexico to the USA (EEUU), whether legally or illegally, they are oftentimes just returning to the land that they had always occupied, millenia before Columbus or Leif Erikson
north of the Rio Grande, most Native Americans were killed off by European diseases or by Euro-
American imminent domain (which not only involved getting kicked off their land, but also the coldblooded murder of the
men, the rape of the women, the sending of the children off to fascistic orphanages and boarding schools where their culture was systematically suppressed so they could instead speak english and follow protestant christianity)
Most of the
people in Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala, and El Salvador are Native Americans.
