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{{short description|Americans of Cossack birth or descent}}
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'''Cossacks in the United States''' or '''Cossack Americans''' are American citizens of [[Cossack]] descent. A number of them self-identify as Cossacks in the US censuses.<ref name=ancestry2000/> A number of people culturally identify themselves as Cossacks.<ref>*[http://www.kazaksusa.com/ Cossack Congress in America]
**''About CCA'': "The Cossack Congress in America is an organization uniting [[Cossack Voisko]]s, organizations, and communities of ethnic Cossacks living in the North American Continent."
*[http://www.americanstudies.history.knu.ua/en/the-ukrainian-free-cossacks-movement-in-the-usa-and-canada-in-1960-1993/ "The Ukrainian Free Cossacks movement in the USA and Canada in 1960 – 1993"]
**''From the abstract:'' "After the end of the Second World War, the Ukrainian Free Cossacks movement continued to operate mainly among the Ukrainian Diaspora outside the USSR and the socialist countries. The Ukrainian Free Cossacks was a typical paramilitary non government organization. North America was the new center of the Ukrainian Free Cossacks in the early 1960s. "
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==Notable people==
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*[[Serge Jaroff]]
*[[Emilio Kosterlitzky]]
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