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In article <828@tdat.teradata.COM>, swf@teradata.com (Stanley Friesen) writes:
|> In article <1992Aug4.140617.10961@dragon.acadiau.ca> alan@dragon.acadiau.ca (Alan McKay) writes:
|> |gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener) writes:
|> |>>WHAT DOES NATIVE AMERICAN MEAN?
...
|> |Indians live in India.  First Nations' People live in North America.
|> |Native North American will do nicely though, or for those of you who
|> |don't know that there *is* a part of North America outside the USA,
|> |I guess Native American might suffice.  There are other terms as well,
|> |but they don't come to mind right now.  But again I state, that Indians
|> |live in India, not in North America.
|> 
|> Well, since I was born in North America, I am most certainly a native
|> American, but I am of purely European ancestry.  So the term you propose
|> is not adequate.  It has the wrong meaning - it means someone born in
|> America.  You need a word for 'someone of American aboriginal ancestry'.
|> So, what are these other terms you mention?

I don't think "aboriginal" would fly.  The aboriginies in Australia and Japan
(the Ainu) and Africa are all caucasian (did I spell that right, Dan?  :-).
The "native americans" are descended from "orientals" (boy, am I glad Scott
isn't looking over my shoulder today...).

Is there a word for a race that is native to an area when another race invades?
Incidentally, in the book _America B.C_, there is a good argument that many of
these people, at least in the eastern part of North America, were Celtic in
origin.  Perhaps we should call them Celtsons, or something.   :-)

I don't find this usage objectionable.  Although, it does lead me to expect
someone with red skin whenever I see those "California Native" bumper stickers.


--Rich Wingerter