what does Native American mean?
NATIVE AMERICAN as NOUN
- Meaning
- any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived
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NATIVE AMERICAN as ADJECTIVE
- Meaning
- of or pertaining to American Indians or their culture or languages
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- Native American religions
- Indian arrowheads
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