... they’re Native Americans, meaning what....
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My ancestry is mostly Irish with a smattering of German, but whenever someone starts that Native American nonsense with me I say that I am Native American because I am an American born in America. I have even checked that box a few times on forms.
I actually have had a person of American Indian ancestry point a finger at me in a group conservation and say roughly that white people like me are to blame for blah,blah,blah. I firmly and impolitically told him he was stupid and that I was first generation and and my family had squat to do with his supposed issues and that further more the people of my heritage had suffered a hell of lot more than his people ever had. The look of confusion on his face was priceless.