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Abstract
A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North, South and Central Americas, and who maintains tribal affiliation or community attachment (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1997/10/30/97-28653/revisions-to-the-standards-for-the-classification-of-federal-data-on-race-and-ethnicity). In the United States it is used for classification of federal government data on race and ethnicity. Race and ethnicity terms are self-identified social construct and may include terms outdated and offensive in MeSH to assist users who are interested in retrieving comprehensive search results for studies such as in longitudinal studies.
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Synonyms
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- American Indians or Alaska Natives
- American Native Continental Ancestry Group
- American Natives
- Native Americans
- American Native
- American, Native
- Native American
- Native, American
- American Indians
- Indians, American
- Native Americans, Federally-Recognized
- American Indian
- Federally-Recognized Native American
- Federally-Recognized Native Americans
- Native American, Federally-Recognized
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8 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings classification, education, ethnology, genetics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, psychology, statistics & numerical data.
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2004
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References
- National Library of Medicine. American Indian or Alaska Native. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D044467. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D044467
- American Indian or Alaska Native. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q67128110