Do any of you consider any non-Native American in the U.S. an illegal immigrants?

Question

Most Native-Americans feel as though their land has been invaded,their people mass slaughtered,and they are living in a land that is all most 110% stolen from them.That is how I feel.Everyday I look outside and wish I could tell all the decendants of the white invaders to go home.Back to Spain,England,France,or where-ever they came from.I feel happy and welcome people from other countries,but the Europeans simply were greedy,and they took over our land.I am mixed Cherokee and Blackfoot,and I want to know if there are any other Natives who feel the same as I do.
When answering this question,please state your tribe or country,if you can.Thanks.I think about this subject a-lot.

Answer 1

I am an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, out of South Dakota. My people, The Lakota, have been fighting for the paha sapa (Black Hills), for many, many years.
You can read more on it here.
http://www.sacredland.org/historical_sit...

"We know our lands have now become more valuable. The white people think we do not know their value; but we know that the land is everlasting, and the few goods we receive for it are soon worn out and gone."

"When all the trees have been cut down,
when all the animals have been hunted,
when all the waters are polluted,
when all the air is unsafe to breathe,
only then will you discover you cannot eat money."

"The white people, who are trying to make us over into their image, they want us to be what they call "assimilated," bringing the Indians into the mainstream and destroying our own way of life and our own cultural patterns. They believe we should be contented like those whose concept of happiness is materialistic and greedy, which is very different from our way. We want freedom from the white man rather than to be integrated. We don't want any part of the establishment, we want to be free to raise our children in our religion, in our ways, to be able to hunt and fish and live in peace. We don't want power, we don't want to be congressmen, or bankers....we want to be ourselves. We want to have our heritage, because we are the owners of this land and because we belong here. The white man says, there is freedom and justice for all. We have had "freedom and justice," and that is why we have been almost exterminated. We shall not forget this."

Answer 2

Svhiyehi osda ;) I would definitely have to agree, but I don't think it's feasible to send anyone back anywhere these days. I figure as long as their descendants learn, then that's about the best we can do in this situation. Also, there are many non-Native folks who came to this country way after the Removal, and many I know are sympathetic. It all depends on the person you get.

And people may not always be what you think they are. I'm half Eastern Band Cherokee with hair courtesy of Manic Panic Flash Lightning ;) This was me before that:

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j36/Danagasta/IMG_2127.jpg

That's at the main console at one of the stations where I worked before WATR.

Yours truly, Danawa-gosdaya (otherwise known as Danagasta 2000.)

Answer 3

properly, the excellence between many "American Indian" and "Mexican Indian" communities is consistent with a guy made border which grow to be purely conventional a pair hundred years in the past. until eventually now then, lots of the tribes alongside the Southwestern US and northern Mexico interacted with one yet another and a few resided and emigrated lower back and forth alongside the two factors of the present border. in actuality, there are literally some tribes that still survive the two factors. So the excellence is rather extra of a nationality subject than an ethnic one. in my view, i think of that's offensive while some human beings (whose ancestors arent even community to this continent) examine with undocumented indigenous Mexicans as "illegals".

Answer 4

Not ONE INCH of the entire world hasn't been fought over dozens of times my friend. This includes bloody wars fought by native Americans with each other. Disease is what killed off the original Natives in the Americas. In point of fact there are MORE Native Americans now than then by far. I am not excusing the atrocities that were perpetrated on Natives and they were many certainly but the entire rest of the world was doing these things to each other all over the world...It was ever thus.

Answer 5

I'm pretty sure the people who came across the Bering Strait were here first... I do believe they may have been Asian... Some native american group might've killed them off.... Does this mean that Asia should take over America? No...

Answer 6

Yes

Answer 7

Please read your history a bit closer, They weren't here first, they were just here before us.