Why is there no Native American country in North America?

Because then there would be no other North, Central or South American country. Native Americans make up a scant 0.7% of the US population and an equally small percentage of the Canadian population. read more

Because then there would be no other North, Central or South American country. Native Americans make up a scant 0.7% of the US population and an equally small percentage of the Canadian population. Central and South America are made up of mostly mixed or pure blood native Americans. read more

"But 50 million years ago, there were primates here." It turns out there are lots of reasons why the ancient primates that inhabited what is now the United States--and even Canada!--no longer call those areas home. Primates came to the New World (meaning North and South America) from, we think, Africa. read more

Since the majority of North America doesn’t offer these conditions - or better ones - the New World Monkeys stayed put. "The Platyrrhines, or New World monkeys are all arboreal," palaeontologists John Flynn, from the American Museum of Natural History, told Popular Science. read more