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In the United States, Native Americans (also known as American Indians, Amerindians, Indigenous Americans or simply Indians; see ) are people descended from the Pre-Columbian indigenous population of the land within the country's modern boundaries.

These peoples were composed of numerous distinct tribes, bands, and ethnic groups, and many of these groups survive intact today as partially sovereign nations.

The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian peoples of the Americas and their descendants.

Indigenous peoples, also known as first peoples, aboriginal peoples, native peoples, or autochthonous peoples, are ethnic groups who are descended from and identify with the original inhabitants of a given region, in contrast to groups that have settled, occupied or colonized the area more recently.

Groups are usually described as indigenous when they maintain traditions or other aspects of an early culture that is associated with a given region.

Not all indigenous peoples share such characteristics.

Indigenous peoples may be settled in a given locale/region or exhibit a nomadic lifestyle across a large territory, but they are generally historically associated with a specific territory on which they depend.

Indigenous societies are found in every inhabited climate zone and continent of the world.

Indigenous languages of the Americas are spoken by indigenous peoples from Alaska and Greenland to the southern tip of South America, encompassing the land masses that constitute the Americas.

These indigenous languages consist of dozens of distinct language families, as well as many language isolates and unclassified languages.