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Community Profile: The American Indian Community House, which has represented New York's Native community for decades, reported members belonging to 72 different Native North American tribes as of 2018. 
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ative American English—described in detail in William Leap's 1993 study American Indian English—refers to a diverse group of English varieties spoken by Native Americas and Alaska Natives, including both those enrolled in hundreds of different tribes and also some who are unaffiliated. Influences from Native American Indigenous languages have been posited, as well as common phonological, intonation, and grammatical patterns which may be connected with the long history of disposession and dispersion which has brought diverse Native American groups into contact with one another, including today in New York.

Note that the language above may be used throughout the New York area — this is just one significant site.
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