Re: Amerind an offensive term (was: Early Amerind assimilation

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Mary Beth Williams wrote:
>
> Being a *native* is not about the place of one's birth, but of whose
> womb one descends from (with the exception of legitimate adoption by
> *natives*.) It takes only one generation for a non-native to produce a
> native -- but first one needs to find a native mate.
>

I descend from my mother's womb, who descended from her mother's womb,
who descended from her mother's womb, and so on, back for quite a few
generations, all of them native-born Americans.

So tell me, please, if I'm not a native American, then what am I a
native of?

Steve Barnard

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