How to Use Native American in a Sentence

Native American

noun

• Star School, which has been serving the community for over 20 years, has a student body that is 99% Native American.
  — Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 19 Nov. 2024
• 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
• More than 71% of Apache County's population is Native American, but the county attorney does not prosecute cases on the reservations.
  — Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic, 7 Oct. 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
• Unless all of one’s ancestors are Inuit, Hawaiian or Native American — the inhabitants of the states before colonization — then all of us are descended from immigrants.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024