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"The Indian wars under the government of the United States have been more than 40 in number. They have cost the lives of about 19,000 white men, women and children, including those killed in individual combats, and the lives of about 30,000 Indians. The actual number of killed and wounded Indians must be very much higher than the given...
Early Indian Americans were often denied their civil rights, leading to close affiliations with African Americans. For most of America's early history, the government only recognized two racial classifications, white or colored. Due to immigration laws of the time, those deemed colored were often stripped of their American citizenship ...
Some tribes have a Blood quantum requirement for citizenship. Others use other methods, such as lineal descent.While, almost two-thirds of all Indian federally recognized Indian tribes in the United States require a certain blood quantum for citizenship, [15] tribal nations are sovereign nations, with a government to government relationship with the United States, and set their own enrollment ...
From 2006 to 2016, the Indigenous population has grown by 42.5 percent, four times the national rate. [ 34] According to the 2011 Canadian census, Indigenous peoples ( First Nations – 851,560, Inuit – 59,445 and Métis – 451,795) numbered at 1,400,685, or 4.3% of the country's total population.
With a population of more than 4.9 million, Indian Americans make up approximately 1.35% of the U.S. population and are the largest group of South Asian Americans, the largest Asian-alone group, [ 10] and the largest group of Asian Americans after Chinese Americans. Indian Americans are the highest-earning ethnic group in the United States.
Indian was one of only five sub categories in the UK census which represents a nation (along with Irish, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Chinese,Vietnamese). India is a diverse nation composed of many ethnic groups. This is reflected in the British Indian community although there are several ethnic groups that number considerably more than others.
The statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square was sprayed with the words "was a racist" during a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020. Throughout his life, Winston Churchill made numerous controversial statements on race, which some writers have described as racist. It is furthermore suggested that his personal views influenced important decisions he made throughout his political career ...
A report by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs dated 25 November 1841 indicates that 15,177 Choctaws had been removed to Oklahoma (Indian Territory) while 3,323 stayed in the east. [146] Emmanuel Domenech estimated the Choctaw at up to 25,000 in about 1860. [147] The Indian Office in 1856 reported them as 22,707.