This subcategory gathers indigenous peoples of North America documented by a distinct language, kinship system, and traditional territory, including the Cherokee, Navajo (Dine), and Inuit of the Arctic, alongside the Metis, a documented mixed-ancestry people with its own recognized culture rather than a simple blend of two others. It does not cover the intentional religious communities of North America, such as the Amish and Hutterites, which are carried under Diasporic, Religious and Modern Social Formations because their defining feature is a shared chosen practice rather than indigenous ancestry and territory.
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Established Era Primary Discipline All North American Indigenous and First Nations Peoples
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1. Wikipedia: Human Relations Area Files
WikipediaHuman Relations Area Files, lead section, founding sentence
A financially autonomous research agency based at Yale University since 1949, its mission is to promote understanding of cultural diversity and commonality in the past and present.
Human Relations Area Files, lead section, anthropologist sentence
Documents in both eHRAF databases are subject-indexed at the paragraph level by HRAF anthropologists.
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