The word Amerind (a contraction of "American Indian") usually refers to the Indigenous Peoples Of The Americas , the peoples who lived in the Americas before the Europeans arrived in the continent; and to the modern ethnic communities that originate from those peoples.
The word was also used in 1987 by linguist Joseph Greenberg for the Amerind Languages , one of three proposed linguistic families in which he classified all Native American languages (the other two being Na-Dené and Eskimo-Aleut ).
Amerind Foundation , a non-profit, privately funded museum and archaeological research facility
