The broad term “Native American” is typically used to describe the Indigenous people who inhabited the land now known as the U.S. for thousands of years before European colonization.

Environmental sovereignty Native peoples stewarded and studied their environments for millennia before European colonization. Today, Native nations continue to use ... 200,000 Native people from ...

Native peoples stewarded and studied their environments for millennia before European colonization ... A groundswell of Native American resistance captured national attention, including protests ...