They’re NOT “Native Americans” nor are they “indigenous people.”
Genetic tests on various tribes around the countries show that their ancestors came from all those “stans” that prior to 1991 were know as Soviet Central Asia or the coast of China.
Their ancestors crossed over the land bridge that is now
mostly under water.
Their ancestors were here first but that’s about it.
They were a primitive culture, sparsely populating an entire continent. It was inevitable that they would be displaced by civilization eventually. It’s pointless for people to fret about it hundreds of years later.
Back in the 1980s, Donald Trump wanted to build a casino in Connecticut, but the Pequots was fighting him and he said that “They don’t look Indian to me” and the Pequots said they came from the East.