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Originally Posted by Eaglet01
Texas belle:
The NATIVE AMERICANS of long ago... wore buckskins as well as other natural items (no walmart close by had to make clothes with animal hides, plants..), they used trees/stones to make weapons to kill for their meat...these people lived in what is known as the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Since they were here first they are called NATIVE AMERICANS. The people that were/are born in the country of INDIA are called INDIANS. which is where Columbus thought he had landed so that is what HE called them..in the years since then the truth has been revealed: this is not INDIA..and they dress different.
Most all of the NATIVE Americans that I know find it offensive to be called by a different nationality. Wouldnt you?
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I would, but remember when C.Columbus discovered America he did not discover the Americas he discovered the Caribbean, (BTW I am Cuban, so I should know) and what he encountered there were indians and he worked them so hard that we don't have a single indian descendant in any of the isles of the Antilles, they were very pacific indians and he destroyed them, so we don't have any natives at all. Sorry, if I offended anyone but for many years they were called indians, i.e, Seminole Indians from Florida, etc...