Were the first white men to arrive in this country Native Americans?

Question

Since the American Indians are not indigenous to this country and migrated to this country and it was not AMERICA . The white man came and again it was not AMERICA. Are the American Indians and the white man BOTH "Native Americans? Both came before America.

jefbev and Farley you are my kind of people. The government wouldn't hyphenante me. I did myself. I am an Appalachian-American. They still won't give me a check..Go Figure,

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"Did you hear that sucking sound?"

Answer 1

You've excellently highlighted the problems created when people start throwing around words that are politically correct. PC words are the most meaningless, empty words in the world. Indians, by the way, call themselves Indians. Not Native Americans. That's a label slapped on them by overly-concerned, guilt-ridden, white do-gooders.

All this [whatever] American stuff is crap. We're all Americans, that's it. We're all supposed to treat each other as equal and no different, yet everybody runs around trying to give themselves unique labels. Me, personally, I'm an American American.

Answer 2

Yeah, who was this "Amerigo" guy anyway? the natives called it "the Land" like normal people everywhere.

Obviously they couldn't call it "India" because they were smart enough to realize, well, its not India. Where the Hell WERE they? So they had a toss up and decided to name the land after their favorite cabin boy.

But, here in Canada, they are not "Native Canadians" they are "the First Nation's People" Some prefer "aboriginal". If they are Cree, I call them Cree. If they are Blackfoot, I call them Blackfoot. Simple as that. Call them what they named themselves.

Answer 3

What Farly said.

Answer 4

native americans are from asian descent