How to Use Native American in a Sentence

Native American

noun
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  • The scalp of a male Native American could fetch two and a half times this amount.
    — Christoph Strobel, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2023
  • That law, passed in 1989, deemed most Native American remains to be property of the state.
    — Logan Jaffe, ProPublica, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Gladstone would be the first Native American to win the lead actress Oscar.
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Zahn happens to be a Native American with the same moral code of anybody good who’s a family man.
    — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The patient just needed to be Native American, or at least enrolled as such.
    — Arizona Republic, The Arizona Republic, 7 June 2024
  • The sculpture — depicting a Native American on horseback, arms outstretched, face to the sky — remained in Boston, where Dallin had settled and spent much of his life.
    — Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 10 May 2024
  • Tremblay: One of the things that really rubs me the wrong way as a person who’s a Native American is, when people find that out about me, there’s this immediate response of pity.
    — Tomris Laffly, IndieWire, 20 June 2024
  • In front of one stands a stereotypical statue of a stoic Native American.
    — Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Haaland is the first Native American to serve as a cabinet secretary.
    — Vivian La, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2023
  • To be Native American is less an identity to be claimed and proclaimed than to be tried on, furtively, after much Internet research.
    — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Lily Gladstone is the first Native American to earn an Oscar nomination for lead actress.
    — Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2024
  • But the new money has also led to a series of unsolved murders, and Scorsese grimly interrupts the action at regular intervals to show the faces, and say the names, of the Native American dead.
    — Vulture, 20 Oct. 2023
  • My grandmother was pure Native American on my father's side.
    — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Her mother, who is Native American and a member of the Gila River tribe, struggled with drug-and-alcohol addiction.
    — Shoshana Walter, New York Times, 29 June 2023
  • Lily Gladstone is considered a favorite in that category to become the first Native American to win an Oscar for acting.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2024
  • In 2021, he was promoted to head of Native American Banking for commercial banking.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 11 July 2023
  • Perched at 7,000 feet above sea level, the historic, high-desert city has preserved and elevated its deep ties to Spanish, Native American, and Mexican traditions.
    — Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The investigations start with an allegation: Someone who claims to be Native American is not.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Native Hawaiian and Native American admits are also down from last year, sitting at 0.5% and 2% respectively.
    — Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 4 Apr. 2023
  • That’s evident early on, when his character, Chief, single-handedly dispatches a group of bad guys who make the mistake of harassing a Native American in a saloon.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2024
  • There had been accusations for at least 15 years that Andrea Smith, a prominent ethnic studies professor, had falsely claimed to be Native American.
    — Vimal Patel, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2023
  • The changes are the result of a concerted effort by the Biden administration to speed up the repatriation of Native American remains, funerary objects and other sacred items.
    — Zachary Small, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Lily Gladstone became the first Native American nominated for best actress.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Today, a federal law mandates that the Smithsonian offer to return the Native American remains in its possession.
    — Claire Healy, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
  • For instance, a federal law mandates the Smithsonian offer to return the Native American remains in its possession.
    — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Black, Native American, and low-income students had particularly low math scores on the federal standardized test.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 July 2023
  • Other titles include books with characters who are Asian, Latino or Native American, while some touch on topics such as immigration and bullying.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Foster children in the state are disproportionately Black and Native American and come from low-income families, and those who age out without a secure family structure face a unique set of hurdles with a limited safety net.
    — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2024
  • Revealing the Smithsonian's ‘racial brain collection’ Whether these are Native American remains matters for many reasons.
    — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
  • While her performance was undeniably captivating, the potential of Lily Gladstone being the first Native American to win best actress left many reflecting on what might have been, had campaign strategies been different.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 11 Mar. 2024

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