Historically, some European Americans traveled to live with Native Americans and eventually became fully accepted members of Native American cultures. Some of them also acted as trade or military liaisons between Native Americans and European Americans, traveling back and forth between Native and European American communities. Such people were ______.

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Enculturation refers to the process of learning one's own culture, typically from birth, while acculturation refers to the process of adopting the cultural traits or social patterns of another group. In this context, European Americans who lived with Native Americans and became fully accepted members of Native American cultures would have undergone both enculturation (into their original European American culture) and acculturation (into the Native American culture).

Historically, Some European Americans Traveled to Live with Native Americans