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Indigenous peoples (Americas)

Indigenous peoples of the Americas
Distribution of Indigenous Peoples in the Americas.svg
Current distribution of the indigenous peoples of the Americas (not including mestizos, zambos and pardos)
Total population
Approximately 69 million
Regions with significant populations
 Mexico 25.7 million
 Peru 14.4 million
 Bolivia 6.8 million
 Guatemala 6.0 million
 Ecuador 3.4 million
 United States 3–5 million
 Chile 2.0 million
 Canada 1.4 million
 Colombia 1.4 million
 Argentina 955,000
 Brazil 818,000
 Venezuela 524,000
 Honduras 520,000
 Nicaragua 444,000
 Panama 450,000
 Paraguay 95,000
 El Salvador 70,000
 Costa Rica 114,000
 Guyana 60,000
 Greenland 51,000
 Belize 40,000 (Maya)
 French Guiana 19,000
 Suriname 12,000–24,000
 Dominica 3,000
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 2,000
 Trinidad and Tobago 1,500
Languages
Indigenous languages of the Americas, English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Danish, Dutch
Religion

The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian peoples of the Americas and their descendants.

Indígenas or pueblos indígenas ("indigenous peoples") is a common term in Spanish-speaking countries, and pueblos nativos or nativos (lit. "native peoples" in the sense of descendants of non-immigrants) may also be heard, while aborigen (aborigine) is used in Argentina, and pueblos aborígenes (aboriginal peoples) is common in Chile. The term "Amerindian" (short for "'Indians of the Americas") is used in Quebec, the Guianas, and the English-speaking Caribbean. In Brazil, indígenas or povos indígenas are common if formal-sounding designations, while índio is still the more often-heard term (the noun for the Indian nationality being indiano), and aborígene and nativo being rarely used in Amerindian-specific contexts (e.g. aborígene is usually understood as the ethnonym for Indigenous Australians). Indigenous peoples are commonly known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, which includes not only First Nations and Arctic Inuit, but also the minority population of First Nations-European mixed-race Métis people who identify culturally and ethnically with indigenous peoplehood. This is contrasted, for instance, to the American Indian-European mixed-race mestizos of Hispanic America (caboclos in Brazil) who, with their larger population (in most Latin American countries constituting either outright majorities, pluralities, or at the least large minorities), identify largely as a new ethnic group distinct from both Europeans and Indigenous Americans, but still considering themselves a subset of the European-derived Hispanic or Brazilian peoplehood in culture and ethnicity (cf. ladinos).


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