Quote Originally Posted by Tuckervill View Post
We use Native American down here because of all that confusion with Columbus thinking he was in India, or something like that.

Back when I lived on an Indian Reservation - White Mountain Apache according to the Apaches that lived there, the Fort Apache Reservation according to the Bureau of Indian Affairs.... one of my co-workers, who was a tribal member AND quite the tease, asked - "why do they call us "Native Americans? Weren't you born in this country? That makes you Native American too doesn't it?" Same man would ask "why do they call us 'red-men'? I put you in the sun, you turn red, where I turn a lovely shade of brown."

Couldn't beat the man's logic.