Native American studies
INTERDISCIPLINARY ACADEMIC FIELD
Native American Studies; American Indian studies; American indian studies; Native american studies; First Nations studies; Indigenous American studies; American Indian Studies; Native Studies; Indian studies; Indigenous liberal studies
Native American studies (also known as American Indian, Indigenous American, Aboriginal, Native, or First Nations studies) is an interdisciplinary academic field that examines the history, culture, politics, issues, spiritual, sociology and contemporary experience of Native peoples in North America, or, taking a hemispheric approach, the Americas. Increasingly, debate has focused on the differences rather than the similarities between other Ethnic studies disciplines such as African American studies, Asian American Studies, and Latino/a Studies.