| 词组 | Native American |
| 释义 | Native American Native American is a relatively new term that is now being used frequently in competition with American Indian and Indian. It has not yet replaced the other terms. The Native is sometimes spelled with a lowercase n. • Native American means American Indian, Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaskan Native —Federal Register Part IV, 15 Dec. 1983 • He tells of a daydreaming child who sees a native American pass by his classroom window, but when he relates this to his teacher, she insists there are no Indians in Connecticut —Linda Hirsh, Hartford (Conn.) Courant, 3 June 1986 • Much of the same can be said to people who attempt to portray Native Americans. I am a Flathead I ... get a little disgusted with the enormous romanticism with which the Indian is treated in the art world —Joanne Bigcrane Sandoval, letter to editor, Southwest Art, January 1985 • Like so many Native Americans, the Moxos gradually gave up their lands when settlers moved into their territory —Allyn Maclean Stearman, Natural History, March 1986 |
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