a member of the race of people living in North America when Europeans arrived of or pertaining to American Indians or their culture or languages; "Native American religions"; "Indian arrowheads"
1) A member of any of the peoples who are the original inhabitants of the western hemisphere south of the Arctic coast region 2) A member of any of the peoples who are the original inhabitants of the western hemisphere (Canadian Supreme Court 19??)
Misnomer created by Columbus referring to indigenous peoples of New World; implies social and ethnic commonality among Native Americans that did not exist; still used to apply to Native Americans (p 399)
The term Indian is a generic one, used in much the same way as Native, a means of "outside-naming" Used to describe those who are descendants of the first inhabitants of what is now Canada
The term "Indian" is narrowly defined by the Indian Act Indian peoples are one of three groups of people recognized as one of Canada's Aboriginal peoples in the Constitution Act, 1982 There are three legal definitions that apply to Indians in Canada: Status Indians, Non-status Indians and Treaty Indians
(Added 7/98) means any person who is a member of any Indian tribe, band, group, pueblo, or community which is recognized by the Federal Government as eligible for services from the Bureau of Indian Affairs in accordance with 25 U S C 1452(c) and any "Native" as defined in the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U S C 1601)
A hand-made glass marble made from cane, dark base glass (can be opaque, translucent or transparent, though appears black, with stripes of bright colors applied to the surface of the marble Sometimes found misshapen, as though hurriedly manufactured Manufactured by the Creighton Brothers at The American Marble & Toy Manufacturing Company in Akron, Ohio in 1894 Also made by the Germans, because of its lower cost production than their other swirl type cane marbles enabling them to better compete for American market share during the machine-marble age The more spherical and the greater amount of colored stripes, the greater the value (Also see Banded Opaque )