Talk:American Indians

Merge proposal

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I propose merging Amerind and American Aborigines into American Indians. Both of these terms are near-synonyms for "American Indians", and I don't think Wikipedia should have three pages on the same topic. ~2025-42329-12 (talk) 13:05, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

• Oppose. These are all disambiguation pages for different terms. Why would you merge them into each other? I see making American Aborigines into a redirect to Indigenous peoples of the Americas since it's an obscure, obsolete term, but Amerind and American Indians have slightly different connotations from each other. Yuchitown (talk) 15:40, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

  Isn't "Amerind" just an abridged version of "American Indian"? ~2025-42329-12 (talk) 13:16, 29 December 2025 (UTC)

  Yes, but it is used in different contexts than "Amerind Indian." "American Indian" is also a legal term within the United States. Yuchitown (talk) 17:04, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

  I've seen it used as a genetic component label in admixture studies when using "American Indian" might be inappropriate, i.e. in Latin American genetics Kotthu (talk) 11:00, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

• Oppose per Yuchitown. - Presidentman talk · contribs (Talkback) 17:03, 31 December 2025 (UTC)

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