19 Jan
2003
19 Jan
'03
4:47 p.m.
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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