Native Americans?
Don’t most all of us, like the Blue-eyed Squaw from Massachusetts, have a little Indian blood in us?
By “Native Americans” is meant “Aboriginal Americans”. You know, “Nativism” was once a term for Anti-immigrationists, as they correctly counted themselves as natives, having been born here. More recently, I recall hearing a University of Vermont basketball player being referred to as a “native Vermonter” ( This was the year Vermont made inroads in the NCAA tournament. ) “Well,” I thought, “If he’s a native Vermonter, why isn’t he a Native American?” It’s kind of depressing if you think about it.