THERE ARE NO PEOPLE NATIVE TO THE AMERICAS. THE TERM "NATIVE AMERICAN IS A LlE."..............................

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No people are native to the Americas. None. Zreo. Zip. Nada. The only thing native to the Americas is the wildlife.

The "natives" simply roamed here from Siberia.

jl_jack09, you must have missed some history in school. The first permanent English settlement in what is now the U.S was in Jamestown, VA. in 1604. The pilgrims didn't arrive untill 1620. Of course Chris Columbus made his epic voyage of discovey to the West Indies in 1492. Lief Ericson came and colonized the Americas circa 1100. There have also been found in the present U.S. skeleton thousands of years old with clear European features. So just who was here first?

To Cher below: the "American Indian" were killing, robbing, enslaving, and raping each other long before the white man stopped such crap with his law and order. Just read the history of the bloody Aztecs...the ancestors of our friends south of the border.

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You are correct no matter what people say. They obviously do not know their history.

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That is such an ignorant and irrational statement, it's difficult to believe anyone is stupid enough to even say it. If you believe that is true then no one is a native to any country anywhere (except Africa). The only inhabitants of the land that is now the USA before the Native Americans came here were the dinosaurs and I really don't think you can find anyone in the USA more "native" than that. They came here at the end of the last ICE AGE across the Bering Straits (connecting Alaska and Russia) which were frozen solid and provided a bridge connecting the two continents. That being cleared up, the Native Americans did not believe in land 'ownership', it was not conceived of by them that any land should belong to 'any' one person, it belonged to everyone it was 'earth'. European settlements sprouted, wars were fought, treaties were written and broken by white man. The Native Americans homelands were 'claimed' by the Europeans and Native Americans were forced on reservations. It wasn't fair, Native Americans were cheated of their homelands due to their beliefs that no one should 'own' lands and by force off of their lands. We now are AMERICAN citizens. We fight in wars on foreign soil, our language has been used as secret communication in the military, we have died for this land, this country is our home, and we are proud to be Americans of the United States of America. Whether a citizen of the USA is 'native' or nationalized, they are American citizens, legally. They owe allegience to no other country. They honor, uphold and respect the laws and leaders of this country. If you are illegally here you are not an American citizen, you have not given your allegience to this country and have not given any oath of that nature.

Illegal immigrants from south of the USA border are not 'native' to those countries. They are immigrants from Spain, Portugal and other European countries.

What the Native Americans did before white man arrived is irrelevant to the issue. I don't think they did those things anymore than Europeans or Native South Americans did. That is not the issue.

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Um, many people know that technically anyone born in the Americas could be called "Native American," Indian or not. You are native to wherever you were born, only ones that aren't are the individual people who came here themselves from elsewhere, be it in recent years or thousands of years ago.

As a side note, even if most Native people's ancient ancestors did migrate here, the environment would likely shape people over a very long period of time, making them indigenous to this land even if their earliest ancestors weren't.

P.S. Wildlife wouldn't necessarily be Native either as they would have migrated as well while humans likely followed behind because of hunting. In the end, humans are still only part of the "wildlife."

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Well no one is really a native to anything then if ya wanna be all teqnical with it. The first people where recorded living in Ethoipa and the middle Eastern region. But the Native americans where first here. of course a conservative American will say that they are the "Americans " but that is not true.

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Yes, but it's a lot easier to say "Native American" than to say "the people who's ancestors were in America for over half a millenium." Sometimes it's good enough to take a wrong shortcut than to waste time being 100% accurate.

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You must have missed some history in school. The American Indians were here when we made Land in the Mayflower at Plymouth rock. They also filled the west before we went there and killed most of them or drove them off their land.

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Well if you want to get absolutly acurate about it the entire world doesn't really have any "native" people we just showed up here just like everything else and some people went one way some went another.

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I agree over that last 10,000 years who can really say where anyone is from, borders changed people migrated. I come from German descent, but I have to right to go to Germany and say OK I want to be made a citizen without earning it.

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OKAY, YOUR STATEMENT HAD A LITTLE BIT OF UNDERSTANDING & VALIDITY...UNTIL YOU JUST BLATANTLY MASSACRED YOUR REP. WITH THAT LAST POST(UPDATE)...I AM INDIGENOUS(S'KLALLAM) I HAVE NEVER CLAIMED TO BE "NATIVE AMERICAN", UNLESS GIVING MY RACE ON SOME SORT OF FORM...I DO SAY THAT I AM NATIVE SOMETIMES, DEPENDS ON THE PEOPLE AROUND-AMERICAN, I AM NOT;MY ANCESTORS CALLED THIS LAND TURTLE ISLAND;...AND ALSO...YOU NEED TO "READ UP" A LITTLE MORE..."LAW AND ORDER" EXISTED HERE BEFORE WHITES SHOWED UP! JUST LIKE IN TODAYS SOCIETY, THERE WERE THE REBELS WHO BROKE WHAT PEACE THAT MY ANCESTORS TRIED TO UPHOLD. EVERY TRIBE, NATION, CLAN HAD RESPECT AND UNDERSTANDING WITH ONE AND OTHER; IT WAS WRITTEN, IN TRIBAL, NOT ENGLISH...HENCE THE REASONING FOR PEOPLE LIKE YOU TO SAY SUCH IGNORANT THINGS.

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So what? If you use your definition, there are no natives in any country except northeastern Africa where early humans evolved.

Most accepted definitions of "native" mean "born and raised in," so there are a lot of native Americans.

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the only thing native to this WORLD is wildlife if you follow that argument. someone had to be first. even if the native american people originally crossed over from asia, then there's your answer. and if you're the first and only, then you're as 'native' as its gonna get.