'Amerind' may refer to:
★ The word Amerind (a contraction of "American Indian") usually refers to the
Indigenous peoples of the Americas, the peoples who lived in the
Americas before the Europeans arrived in the continent; and to the modern ethnic communities that originate from those peoples.
★ The word was also used in 1987 by linguist
Joseph Greenberg for the
Amerind languages, one of three proposed linguistic families in which he classified all Native American languages (the other two being
Na-Dené and
Eskimo-Aleut).
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Amerind Foundation, a non-profit, privately funded museum and archaeological research facility