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How the Native American population in the US increased 87% says more about whiteness than about demographics

  • Written by Circe Sturm, Professor of Anthropology, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts

The Native American population in the U.S. grew by a staggering 86.5% between 2010 and 2020, according to the latest U.S. Census – a rate demographers say is impossible to achieve without immigration.

Birth rates among Native Americans don’t explain the massive rise in numbers. And there certainly is no evidence of an influx of Native...

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