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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only natives to this country are the indigenous peoples. Which makes white supremacy in this country all the more laughable.[/quote]

Nah.  The indigenous people all came from somewhere else, mostly from Asia.  And those people originally came from somewhere else too.

By your definition, no one is native once you get away from the people living in southern Africa.[/quote]

+1. Native Americans didn't spontaneously spring from the ground in America.[/quote]

But when does being Native American include those not indigenous to America or the first to arrive?[/quote]

Native American is a term that describes an ethnic identity of a subset of people who are native to the American Continents (the latter includes anyone born in North, Central or South America).
Native American is a term that describes an ethnic  subset of people who may also be native to the United States of America.

There are controversies surrounding and requirements to claim status as an ethnic Native American (somewhat described here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK233104/), which are not required to establish that one is native to the United States of America or North America.

Spoken ambiguity in the meaning of "American native" or "Native American" is caused by citizens of the United States of America referring to themselves as Americans. In practice, it is not really a problem because most people avoid the ambiguity and are more localized in their claim of native birth -- native New Yorker, native Californian, DC native, Cleveland native, and so on.[/quote]

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