By population, the United States of America is the third largest country in the world, falling far behind China (1.4 billion) and India (1.25 billion). Its most populous states are California (39 million) and Texas (27 million), and its most populous city is New York City (8.5 million.)
http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/united-states-population/
Native Americans Are Not the 'Vanishing Americans'. At the turn of the 20th century, Native Americans were known as the Vanishing Americans.. And now, 100 years later, they are one of the fastest growing groups in America.
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POPULATION. 1  Total American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) alone population: 2.9 million or about 0.9 percent of the US population.(r1) 2  Total AI/AN population alone or in combination with other races: 5.2 million or 1.7 percent of the US population.(r2)
http://www.ncai.org/about-tribes/demographics
United States Population 2017. According to the US Census Bureau's population clock, the estimated 2016 United States population (December 2016) is nearly 325 million. This falls just a bit short of the 324.1 million estimated by the United Nations.
http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/united-states-population/
In the United States, Native Americans (also known as American Indians, Amerindians, Indigenous Americans or simply Indians; see §Terminology differences) are people descended from the Pre-Columbian indigenous population of the land within the country's modern boundaries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States
The American Indian and Alaska Native population includes people. who marked the “American Indian or Alaska Native” checkbox or. reported entries such as Navajo, Blackfeet, Inupiat, Yup’ik, or Central. American Indian groups or South American Indian groups.
https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-10.pdf
In 1817, the Cherokee became the first Native Americans recognized as U.S. citizens. Under Article 8 of the 1817 Cherokee treaty, Upwards of 300 Cherokees (Heads of Families) in the honest simplicity of their souls, made an election to become American citizens.
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Native Americans Are Not the 'Vanishing Americans'. And now, 100 years later, they are one of the fastest growing groups in America. For instance, in South Dakota -- where there are nine Indian reservations -- every county located on a reservation has shown growth in population while many of the other rural counties have shown a loss.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tim-giago/native-americans-are-not-_b_1868676.html
After European explorers reached the West Coast in the 1770s, smallpox rapidly killed at least 30% of Northwest Coast Native Americans. For the next eighty to one hundred years, smallpox and other diseases devastated native populations in the region.
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Native alone-or-in-combination pop-. ulation experienced faster growth. than both the total U.S. population. and the American Indian and Alaska. Native alone population, growing. by 27 percent from 4.1 million in. 2000 to 5.2 million in 2010. 15 Percentages shown in text generally are.
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native american population
The population of the Native Americans is 5.2 million.  