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Natalia Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster
Natalia Ayesha Grosvenor, Dowager Duchess of Westminster (née Phillips, born 1959), widow of the 6th Duke of Westminster; descendant of Pushkin, godmother of Prince William, mother of the 7th Duke.
Nation
A nation is a community whose members view each other as sharing a culture, history, and institutions, and sometimes language, ethnicity, or religion; it is distinct from the state and the nation-state.
National Bravery Award
National Bravery Award: annual Indian award for children, started 1957 by the Indian Council for Child Welfare, with Bharat, Geeta and Sanjay Chopra, and Bapu Gaidhani categories, presented by the Prime Minister before Republic Day; later replaced by the PMRBP.
National Commission for Minorities (राष्ट्रीय अल्पसंख्यक आयोग)
National Commission for Minorities (राष्ट्रीय अल्पसंख्यक आयोग), India's statutory watchdog under the NCM Act 1992 for six notified religious minorities, with civil-court powers, a Chairperson, Vice Chairperson and five Members, reconstituted in 2026 after vacancies.
National Commission for Scheduled Tribes
National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST), India's constitutional body under Article 338A, set up 19 February 2004; monitors safeguards for Scheduled Tribes, inquires into complaints, and reports annually to the President.
National Day of Spain
National Day of Spain (Fiesta Nacional de España, formerly Día de la Hispanidad and Fiesta de la Raza): national holiday on 12 October marking Columbus's 1492 landfall; governed by Law 18/1987, marked by a Madrid military parade.
National Hispanic Heritage Month (United States)
National Hispanic Heritage Month, or Mes Nacional de la Herencia Hispana, is a US observance each September 15 to October 15 honoring Hispanic American history, culture, and contributions.
National symbol
National symbols are flags, anthems, emblems, animals, and other representations of a country's identity, legally recognized or established by long public use; they unify or divide, feature in diplomacy, and are periodically redesigned or contested.
National symbols of the Philippines
National symbols of the Philippines: flag, anthem Lupang Hinirang, motto, coat-of-arms, and Great Seal under RA 8491 (1998), plus proclaimed symbols sampaguita, narra, Philippine Eagle, and Philippine Pearl; no official national hero exists.
Native American cultures in the United States
Native American cultures in the United States: diverse lifeways of 575 federally recognized tribes, spanning 15,000+ years, distinct languages, sovereignty, and federal policy eras from treaties to self-determination.
Native American mascot controversy
Native American mascot controversy: dispute over Native American names, logos, and imagery in sports, from about 2,400 US schools to pro teams; covers psychological research, NCAA 2005 policy, Washington and Cleveland name changes, and state bans.
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 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 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.
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.
Navajo
Navajo (Diné, Diné Bizaad) — the largest federally recognized Native American tribe and reservation in the U.S., 27,425 sq mi across Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah; 2020 census 423,412 claiming Navajo ancestry; Long Walk 1864, 1868 treaty, 110-chapter three-branch government.
Navajo Nation
The Navajo Nation (Diné) is a tribal sovereign in the southwestern United States whose 27,425-square-mile land base in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah is the largest in the country.
Negrito
Negrito is a Spanish-origin anthropological term for short-statured, dark-skinned, frizzy-haired indigenous groups in the Philippines, Malay Peninsula, southern Thailand, and Andaman Islands, including the Semang, Maniq, Aeta, and Andamanese; genetics shows they are not one population.
Negro
Negro: historical English term for people of Black African descent, from Spanish/Portuguese negro (Latin niger); standard US census and official usage 1900–2010, now considered offensive, replaced by Black and African American.
Negroid
Negroid is an obsolete racial-classification term from 19th- and 20th-century physical anthropology, grouped with Caucasoid and Mongoloid, once denoting sub-Saharan Africans, Melanesians, and some southern Asian peoples; now marked offensive and scientifically rejected.
Neighborhood Associations
Neighborhood associations of Japan, called chōnaikai and burakukai, were local units created nationwide in 1940 to run rationing, savings mobilization, civil defense, and war cooperation, and dissolved in 1947.
Neo Black Movement of Africa
Neo Black Movement of Africa (NBM), also identified by governments as the Black Axe confraternity, founded 1977 at University of Benin, Nigeria; registered 1994; denies criminal links.
Neo-Templarism
Neo-Templarism: modern movements claiming inspiration from or descent from the medieval Knights Templar, suppressed in 1312. Begins with Fabré-Palaprat's 1804 Order of the Temple and the forged Larmenius Charter; spans Masonic Templar degrees, OSMTH, and the Order of the Solar Temple.
New Year
New Year marks the transition between calendar years; January 1 in the Gregorian calendar, a public holiday in 221 countries in 2026, with other new years (Lunar New Year, Nowruz, Songkran) set by lunar and solar calendars.
New Zealanders
New Zealanders are the people of Aotearoa New Zealand: Māori descendants of Polynesian settlers (1250–1300 CE), later British settlers, and post-1970s Pacific, Asian and other immigrants. 2023 Census population 4,993,923; 67.8% European, 17.8% Māori, 17.3% Asian.
Newar people
Newar people (Newa, Newāḥ), indigenous inhabitants of Nepal's Kathmandu Valley, 5.6% of Nepal's 1991 population; Tibeto-Burman Nepal Bhasa speakers with caste-organized Hindu-Buddhist society, guthi associations, Newar Buddhism, and the Indra Jatra Kumari festival.
Nextdoor
Nextdoor (NYSE: NXDR) is a hyperlocal social network of verified neighborhoods, launched in 2011, public via SPAC in 2021, with 22.9 million weekly users, 1 in 3 U.S. households, and 2025 revenue of $258 million.
Nez Perce
The Nez Perce (Nimiipuu, "we the people") are a Columbia Plateau tribe of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. Key facts: 1855 Walla Walla treaty reservation of about 7.5 million acres, the 1863 "Thief Treaty" shrinkage by 90%, the 1,170-mile Flight of 1877 ending at Bear Paw, and the modern Nez Perce Tribe at Lapwai, Idaho.
Nganasan people
The Nganasans are an indigenous Samoyedic people of the Taimyr Peninsula in northern Siberia, the most northern inhabitants of the Eurasian landmass, who traditionally hunted wild reindeer and speak the endangered Nganasan language.
Ngāpuhi
Ngāpuhi is New Zealand's largest Māori iwi, based in Northland (Te Tai Tokerau) from Hokianga to the Bay of Islands. Descended from Rāhiri; signed He Whakaputanga 1835 and Te Tiriti 1840; fought the Crown in the 1845–46 Northern War.