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- noun Plural form of
Amerindian .
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"Amerindians" will finally convince them that, from an objective point of view, we are a constituent part of the historical alternatives that are being discussed at the international level.
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However, the movement initiated by different political and intellectual "Amerindians" will finally convince them that, from an objective point of view, we are a constituent part of the historical alternatives that are being discussed at international levels.
Nobel Lecture 1992
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According to most modern historians, the Amerindians were generally taller, stronger and healthier with longer life expectancies than the short, dirty, smelly, underfed Europeans that confronted them at the end of the 15th Century.
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Amerindians ground dried meat and dried fruit to make pemmican.
Meathead Goldwyn: Gaga's Dress Jerky? Here's How to Make Cootie-Free Jerky. Meathead Goldwyn 2010
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This sounds very much like Europe prior to the age of Columbus, and very much like an argument for some form of racial superiority proved by the fact that Europe “woke up” to “technology” before the Amerindians.
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Amerindians ground dried meat and dried fruit to make pemmican.
Meathead Goldwyn: Gaga's Dress Jerky? Here's How to Make Cootie-Free Jerky. Meathead Goldwyn 2010
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Same with the persecution of the Cathars and other Christian heretics, the same with medieval persecution of the Jews (to some extent - killing Jews was always condemned by the papacy, although supported by many provincial clerics) and to a slight extent the same with the colonization of the Americas (although the Christian Spanish and Portuguese were much less cruel to the Amerindians than the largely secular English and Dutch.)
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Amerindians ground dried meat and dried fruit to make pemmican.
Meathead Goldwyn: Gaga's Dress Jerky? Here's How to Make Cootie-Free Jerky. Meathead Goldwyn 2010
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The general legal status of Amerindians has evolved over the generations but the general question was resolved well over a century ago: anyone of genetic Amerindian descent has certain rights and privileges stemming from the dubious “dependent sovereignty” status of the tribes as sloppily defined back in the 19th Century and mangled through a series of treaties negotiated in bad faith and dishonestly managed by the federal government.
Matthew Yglesias » Goldberg: The Middle East Is Complicated and It’s All the Arabs’ Fault 2010
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Amerindians ground dried meat and dried fruit to make pemmican.
Meathead Goldwyn: Gaga's Dress Jerky? Here's How to Make Cootie-Free Jerky. Meathead Goldwyn 2010
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