Interesting concept, yet often difficult to determine. For example, "native" Hawaiians are descendants of Tahitians who displaced the Micronesians who first discovered and settled Hawaii. Ironically, one measure of "aboriginal" is a lack of advancement (e.g., Stone Age culture). Perhaps original, but certainly not deserving of romantic adoration.
All of our ancestors everywhere migrated from somewhere else except for Africa.
"Native" means aboriginal -- the first people who were here. Those who displaced nobody.
Duh...
This continent/country was a wide open frontier with no immigration laws and just because a certain group of humans may have gotten here first doesn't mean a damned thing. In fact those who migrated over the Bering Straits affectionently and adoringly called Native Americans may not even have been here first.
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At any rate they weren't displaced. Their descendants are still around today and those who settled within our border are all full fledged U.S. citizens. They also have their own sovereign lands.
Double "duh".
Nah, they weren't "displaced"
::cough Trail of Tears cough:: at all. Why, we still have places here in Carolina where you can see street names in Cherokee. And when my ancestors came to "settle" Mississippi in the 1830s after Indians had been, um, "cleared out", they kept the cute Native American names so we could have a quaint song like
Ode to Billie Joe playing on the radio, so those names at least stayed put, right?
And the Arawak, Beothuk, Karankawa, Mandan, Chisca, Hachaath, Taino and Powhatans, well they were all exterminated, not "displaced". And of course as you note, they have their own sovereign lands where they thrive today, like Chicago and Seattle and Milwaukee and Oklahoma and Alabama. Oh wait, those are just place names.
Take a drive across the barren desert of Nevada sometime if you'd like to see what we've allowed them for 'sovereign lands' after Europeans took the choice stuff....
Deeeep double duh.