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The term "Native American" is wrong and dishonest
Let me count the ways:
1. The many Indian tribes emigrated from Asia. They were not "native" to this land.
2. At the time the settlers colonized this place, it was known only as the New World. The term "America" comes from an Italian sea explorer "Amerigo Vespucci." The United States did not even exist at the time. So it is idiotic to refer to either Indians or Americans as all immigrants. Colonists and Indians came here before immigration law was written.
3. It is okay to call them Indians. In fact, they prefer it. The myth of Columbus allegedly seeking India is just that, a myth. At the time of Columbus's journey, the country known today as India was called Hindustan. The term Indian actually comes from Columbus's inability to speak good Spanish at the time he landed in what would now be called the West Indies. He referred to these people as "Una Gente in Dios." A people in God. In Dios. Indians.
4. When you consider what America did to the Indians, (kill 20 or so million of them, destroy five hundred separate cultures, herd the survivors onto the worst land we can find) why in the name of Zeus's BUTTHOLE would they want to name themselves after the country that did this? "Native Americans."
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