Native American And Irish Interactions
Native Americans in the United States, Native American nations, Irish Americans, Irish immigrants to the United States, and residents of Ireland have a history of often-supportive interactions dating back to the start of the Great Famine (Ireland), Great Famine. Across multiple generations, people from both communities have drawn attention to their parallel histories of colonization by English language, English-speaking countries. Scholarship on, and press attention to, these interactions has highlighted both acts of solidarity and the participation of some Irish immigrants in the invasion and dispossession of Native Americans. First interactions The Choctaw tribe had significant influence from the McCurtain family. Beginning with Daniel McCurtain, an Irish immigrant who had fought in the American Revolution and later married a Choctaw woman, and his descendant Cornelius McCurtain (born 1803), who became a chief of the Choctaw tribe. Cornelius' sons Jackson McCurtain, Edmund Mc ...
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Native Americans In The United States
Native Americans (also called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans) are the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous peoples of the United States, particularly of the Contiguous United States, lower 48 states and Alaska. They may also include any Americans whose origins lie in any of the indigenous peoples of North or South America. The United States Census Bureau publishes data about "American Indians and Alaska Natives", whom it defines as anyone "having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America ... and who maintains tribal affiliation or community attachment". The census does not, however, enumerate "Native Americans" as such, noting that the latter term can encompass a broader set of groups, e.g. Native Hawaiians, which it tabulates separately. The European colonization of the Americas from 1492 resulted in a Population history of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, precipitous decline in the size of the Native American ...
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