@neo.coom: I am 100% Native American—indigenous to the land as much as the Bald Eagle.

caliduda :

We're also indigenous Americans, as indigenous means "having originated from," and our identity as Americans originated here.

Manda :

The way you say settler is very satisfying for some reason.

mrwalkway_ :

How long does one's family need to live in a region to be considered native. My family has been here since 1620, over 400 years. Am I native? in 200 years will my descendants be native? what about 600 years, making a full 1,000 years? What is the cut off

🇻🇦🇮🇹Michael🇻🇦🇺🇸 :

The ppl there weren’t called “native Americans” the real native Americans are the Europeans who discovered and named it to “America”

Gilberto Deleon :

No confirmed evidence has been found that Homo sapiens lived anywhere in North or South America before humans migrated from Asia into the Americas.

🇺🇸wokefreezone75❌ :

If you were born in America you are native to America. The term Native American is loosely used to describe indigenous people born here. Technically we’re all native Americans having been born here. Before it was America, nobody called themselves native Americans because this continent was nameless

John Tolin :

mounting archaeological evidence supports that when the Clovis people, what we would call the ancestors of the native Americans, arrived in the Americas there were already people here. the native Americans were also settlers and colonialists. the people we call native Americans, whose ancestors arrived 8 to 10,000 years ago, found a land already occupied by other people. the more you know

Mattao :

I 100% dig this. Followed, 10 times over.

Tomke :

America in that case does not mean the US as a state or other states founded by European settlers, but the contents that are the Americas. From a modern perspective, America was America before settlers arrived, because that is the name we gave it afterwards. Europe is also europea 10.000 years ago, when europe didn't really exist as a concept.

fardriver :

My mother’s ancestors got hear around 1640 and my father’s ancestors were here around 1608 so how much time?

Mr potato 🥔 :

Adramane :

The term native here should actually be indigenous, because then there’s no fuss about who’s indigenous and who’s not

Roman • RS3 :

He almost got it

B Rose :

I’m native here. I was born here.

Unnie•Radio :

my SAR brother!

fardriver :

How much time?

Keiron :

The NATION America was founded by colonialism so… native Americans are the europeans that colonised the land. Why is that hard for people to understand lmao

𝗭𝗲𝗿𝗼 ☯︎ (ludgeist) :

So NeoCoom thinks the molecule H2O didn’t exist before “H2O” was coined. Unironically did the Vaush moment of referent-fixing semantic content by historical lexemes.

Poopspian :

Aren’t you British?

Justen :

They always have their own definition that is fluid lmfao

Gemeraldthe3rd :

Americans before America

Robert Kalani Foxworthy :

nope the indigenou granted s land to or sold it to Europeans , the Europeans set up government to administrate the Europeans settlers and the acquired land. this new acquired land was named America by Europeans. the indigenous had different name for their land. most foundational Americans have indigenous ancestors, it was that ad mixture that caused split with European homeland.

Garbage Human Being :

Juxtaposition

GothamChess :

Native Americans aren’t Europeans but the other guys definition includes settlers

အောင်ဆန်း :

Christian colonialism 😂😂😂