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Native American Music Awards
The Native American Music Awards, or Nammys, founded in 1998 by Ellen Bello, are the annual US awards honoring Native American recordings in over 30 categories, decided by advisory members and public vote; distinct from Namibia's NAMAs.
Native American myopathy
Native American myopathy, now called STAC3 disorder or Bailey-Bloch congenital myopathy, is an autosomal recessive congenital myopathy caused by STAC3 mutations, first described in the Lumbee tribe, with weakness, contractures, cleft palate, and malignant hyperthermia susceptibility.
Native American name controversy
Native American name controversy: the debate over American Indian, Native American, Indigenous, Native, and tribal-specific terms for Indigenous peoples of the United States and the Americas, including government style guidance and the self-identification versus enrollment dispute.
Native American Renaissance
The Native American Renaissance is the surge of fiction and poetry by Native American authors begun by N. Scott Momaday's 1968 novel House Made of Dawn, named by critic Kenneth Lincoln in 1983.
Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans in the United States: 575 federally recognized tribes with government-to-government relations, 9.7 million alone or in combination (2020), defined by tribal sovereignty, the federal trust responsibility, and a history of removal, allotment, and self-determination.
Native chemical ligation
Native chemical ligation is a chemical method that joins unprotected peptide segments through a native amide bond, introduced by Dawson, Muir, Clark-Lewis, and Kent in 1994.
Native Courts of Egypt
The Native Courts of Egypt (المحاكم الأهلية), also called the National Courts, were established in 1883 for Egyptian nationals and absorbed the Mixed Courts' jurisdiction in 1949.
Native cuisine of Hawaii
Native cuisine of Hawaii: Kānaka Maoli food system built on kalo (taro) pounded into poi, ʻulu, ʻuala, pigs, and seafood within ahupuaʻa, loʻi, and loko iʻa systems; distinct from plantation-era local food.
Native Dancer
Native Dancer (1950-1967), the "Gray Ghost," was an American Thoroughbred who won 21 of 22 starts, lost only the 1953 Kentucky Derby, won the Preakness and Belmont, and founded a dominant sire line through Raise a Native and Mr. Prospector.
Native directing group
A native directing group is a coordinating functional group, such as an amine or carboxylic acid, already present in a substrate that steers metal-catalyzed C–H activation to a nearby bond.
Native Esperanto speakers
Native Esperanto speakers (denaskuloj) are children raised in Esperanto-speaking families, numbering roughly 1,000–2,000 worldwide. All are bilingual, documented since 1919, with about 350 families recorded by 1996; Bergen (2001) found nativization effects such as accusative loss.
Native Hawaiians
Native Hawaiians (kānaka maoli), the Indigenous people of the Hawaiian Islands, overthrown kingdom 1893, over 680,000 nationwide, homestead blood-quantum system, not a federally recognized tribe.
Native ion mobility-mass spectrometry
Native ion mobility-mass spectrometry pairs native mass spectrometry with ion mobility separation, revealing the stoichiometry, conformation, and ligand binding of protein complexes from small, unlabeled samples.
Native Life in South Africa
Native Life in South Africa is a 1916 book of political reportage by Sol Plaatje, protesting the Natives' Land Act and the displacement of black farming families.
Native mass spectrometry
Native mass spectrometry is a mass spectrometry method that ionizes proteins and biomolecules under gentle electrospray conditions so noncovalent complexes survive into the gas phase and can be weighed intact.
Native multimodal pretraining
Native multimodal pretraining, often called early fusion, trains one transformer from scratch on interleaved text, image, and video tokens instead of attaching a vision encoder to an LLM.
Native polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
Native polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (native PAGE) separates proteins and complexes without denaturing agents like SDS, so mobility reflects size, shape, and charge, and active bands can be detected.
Native settlement
Native settlement, scheduled monument reference 1003146, a Historic England-designated Romano-British native rural settlement, recorded in Planning Data at coordinates -2.371509, 54.112522.
Native Son
Native Son is Richard Wright's 1940 novel about Bigger Thomas, a poor Black man on Chicago's South Side who kills a white woman; a Book-of-the-Month Club bestseller, frequently banned, adapted by Welles on Broadway and by Chenal, and restored uncut in 1991.
Native Son (2019 film)
Native Son (2019) is an HBO drama film directed by Rashid Johnson, written by Suzan-Lori Parks, and starring Ashton Sanders as Bigger Thomas, adapting Richard Wright's 1940 novel to present-day Chicago; it premiered at Sundance and aired April 2019.
Native sparse attention
Native sparse attention (NSA) is a natively trainable, hardware-aligned sparse attention mechanism for long-context language models, introduced in February 2025 by Jingyang Yuan with DeepSeek co-authors including Wenfeng Liang.
Native title in Australia
Native title in Australia: common-law recognition of pre-existing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land rights under the Native Title Act 1993, arising from Mabo (1992), determined over about 42.1% of Australia's land area.
Native Tongues
Native Tongues (Native Tongues Posse), a New York hip-hop collective of the late 1980s and 1990s centered on Jungle Brothers, De La Soul, and A Tribe Called Quest, pioneered Afrocentric, jazz-sampling rap; no joint album was released.
Native Writers' Circle of the Americas
The Native Writers' Circle of the Americas (NWCA) is an organization of Native American writers, founded around 1991 and known for its annual literary awards.
Native-soil literature
Native-soil literature (鄉土文學, xiangtu wenxue) is a Chinese-language literary category devoted to one's home region and its people, prominent in mainland fiction of the 1920s to 1940s.
Natives Land Act, 1913
Natives Land Act, 1913 (Act No. 27 of 1913), South African law passed 19 June 1913 confining African land ownership to about 7% of the Union, first statutory territorial segregation, basis for apartheid land law, repealed 1991.
Nativism (politics)
Nativism (politics): ideology that states should belong exclusively to the native group, a core feature of the populist radical right; seen in the Know-Nothing Party and modern anti-immigrant parties like the AfD and National Rally.
Nativity of Jesus
The Nativity of Jesus, or Nativity of Christ, is the account of his birth found only in Matthew and Luke, the basis of the Christmas story.
Nativity of Mary
The Nativity of Mary, also called Marymas, is the Christian feast of the Virgin Mary's birth, kept on September 8 in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox calendars.
Nativity scene
A nativity scene, also called a Christmas crib or presepe, is a display depicting the birth of Jesus, first staged by St Francis at Greccio in 1223.