The broad term “Native American” is typically used to describe the Indigenous people who inhabited the land now known as the U.S. for thousands of years before European colonization.

About half of those residents were Native Alaskans, members of indigenous groups who inhabited Alaska before it was colonized ... century of Russian and American colonization prior to World ...

As sovereign nations, Native Americans have been able to protect land ... Native peoples stewarded and studied their environments for millennia before European colonization. Today, Native nations ...

As sovereign nations, Native Americans have been able to protect ... and studied their environments for millennia before European colonization. Today, Native nations continue to use science ...