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Native Americans (also Aboriginal Peoples, Aboriginal Americans, American Indians, Amerindians, Amerind, Indians, First Nations, First Peoples, Alaskan Natives, Native Canadians, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are those peoples indigenous to the Americas, living there prior to European colonization.

This term encompasses a large number of distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of them still enduring as political communities.

They generally have a copper-coloured skin, coarse black straight hair, high cheek-bones, black deep-set eyes, and tall erect figure.

The terms "Amerindian" and "Indian", both of which are derivatives of "American Indian" (as is "Amerind", though this term is more popular in linguistic circles), are not necessarily completely synonymous with "Native American".

Although all Amerindians are Native Americans, not all Native Americans are Amerindians. "Amerindian" relates to a mega-group of people spanning the Americas that are related in culture and genetics, and are quite distinct from the later arriving Eskimos (Inuit, Yupik, and Aleut peoples native to Alaska and arctic Canada).

The latter Eskimo share their cultural and genetic commonality with other arctic peoples not native to the American continent, such as those from arctic Russian Siberia.