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Aboriginal Americans

Aboriginal Americans (or alternatively, American Aborigines) is a term that more accurately describes the various peoples to first inhabit the area of the Americas, than the more commonly used term: Native Americans.

See "Native American" for a detailed description of the various nations/tribes of indigenous peoples to the Americas, and other terms that attempt to denote the same.

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