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Originally Posted by UncleAng
You're trying too hard. In Canada they're called 'First Nations'.. is that more apropos?
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(In the life of a Florida substitute teacher, sometimes third and fourth graders make such detours in illogic. They have an excuse. They don't know any better. I have to admit, this is a bit more eye opening.)
The term "Native American" is a lie. If you wish to call them Native Canadians, then you have to make the case that they created the Canadian political system and were the original founding fathers.
History says otherwise. Indians migrated to the New World centuries before the white Europeans discovered it.
In America, there is a government office called the "Bureau of Indian Affairs." It isn't called Bureau of Native American Affairs. Most Indians prefer to be called Indians, rather than Native Americans.
Nobody disputes that many tribes were shoved off their land with the United States westward expansion. Nobody disputes the sheer injustice and cruelty of that move. There are Indians today who claim the United States has violated every treaty with every Indian tribe in the country. Nobody is denying that.