Native American

Native American refers to the indigenous peoples of the Americas (prior to European colonization) and their contemporary descendants. The term is used in these claims to denote populations whose remains and cultural artifacts are held by institutions, whose history of dispossession and cultural erasure is documented, and whose traditions and resistance movements are compared with other colonized groups.

Claims that use this term

• More than 116,000 Native American human remains still held in museums and collections
• 870,000 Native American artifacts including nearly 110,000 human remains still held by institutions nationwide
• African and Native American trickster traditions met side by side in America.
• Roosevelt equated Muslim unrest in the Philippines with Native American rebellions.
• Cultural-erasure denial licensed apartheid and Native American dispossession
• Barbary captivity narratives doubled as Native American captivity stories