Nope.
They might be the Cherokee, Apache, etc....but they are not the "real" Americans. Why? America was not a country until July 4, 1776.
Amazing that Freepers don't understand their own history.
Actually, they just got here first and were not really indigenous.
America has no true indigenous population. Even the Native Americans were immigrants at one time over the ice bridge at the Bering Strait.
“Amazing that Freepers don’t understand their own history.”
And just as amazing as the freepers don’t understand that America is not the United States. The US is “of America.”
“America was not a country until July 4, 1776.”
None of the Americas has ever been a country. It is a location of which now there are three different pieces. According to the library of congress, America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer who set forth the then revolutionary concept that the lands that Christopher Columbus sailed to in 1492, were part of a separate continent. A map created in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller was the first to depict this new continent with the name “America,” a Latinized version of “Amerigo.”
So being born or naturalized here can make you a citizen of the United States after 1790 when the nation’s first naturalization law came into effect. But you can be Americans in north, south or central America, and be an American. But not neccessarily a citizen of the US.
So by the deplicting and acceptance of the naming in 1507, anyone living in North American were Americans, but not US citizens..yet. And the Indian tribes were here long before the Europeans. The American Indian was here an estimated 20K years before the arrival in North American by Leif Erickson, about 500 years before Columbus.
And Columbus never landed in North America landing in South America during his third voyage and Central America on his final trip. The earliest recognized central European to land was John Cabot, representing Italy, on the coast of Canada in 1497. And the land mass now known as the land under the US was first explored by Giovanni da Verrazzano who explored the East Coast of North America from what is now Florida to presumably Newfoundland in 1524.
Hope this helps.
rwood