OT: Indians, Americans, Natives, Native Americans, Indigenous Peoples, and "Indigens" was (Intellectual Property)

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Mon Jan 20 00:47:00 2003

On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Eric Smith wrote:

> I'm certainly an American by birth or origin, thus I'm clearly native
> to America.

The term Native American has certainly caused semantical confusion.

You are indeed a Native American, and a native American. But you are not,
in the context of the period preceding, say, 500 years ago, a Person
Descended from an Indigenous Person of this Land that is Now Known as
America.

Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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