[Regulator]

Can we please not use the term Native American, especially when describing how they migrated here

The proper term is of course aboriginal.

But knowing their own migration paths and timing, even that can be sketchy to use. They aren't really "indigenous", just earliest arrivals.

And the use of the reference word for Amerigo Vespucci to describe them borders on hilarious.

[Sherman Logan]

Aborigine: A member of the indigenous or earliest known population of a region

Which means of course that only the first-wave immigrants here discussed qualify. The second and third waves are no more aboriginal than the European fourth wave.

[Sherman Logan]

Aborigine: A member of the indigenous or earliest known population of a region

Which means of course that only the first-wave immigrants here discussed qualify. The second and third waves are no more aboriginal than the European fourth wave.

[JoeFromSidney]

They aren't really "indigenous", just earliest arrivals.

That's right. Just like the rest of us, they're the descendants of immigrants.

In reality, with the possible exception of West Africa, every nation in the world is populated by people whose ancestors came from somewhere else. We're all "nations of immigrants."