True U.S.A ( Archived) (79)

1. Even the "American Indians" came from somewhere else originally. America has no "truly native" people in the sense that you are alluding to.
2. In the 1800's, a "native American" was considered to be any white male born on this continent.
3. It's my belief that Theodore Roosevelt put it best when he said:

(Addressing the Knights of Columbus in New York City - October 12, 1915)

"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.

This is just as true of the man who puts "native" before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.

But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.

The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English- Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian- Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic.

The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American."

Ayn Rand called that "Hyphenation" the "Balkanization" of America.
America (the US of A) was built on Individual Rights,not on Tribalism.
The First and probably the Only Country in the World to do so..

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Marty the Fast Worker.

Well at 44 it seems a shame to miss out on any opportunity Conrad