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Are Native Americans actually native?

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Every year across the country's countless elementary school students recite: “In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue” and many perform a play about him discovering Indians in America. The thing is Columbus never landed in what would become the United States, he actually landed in the Caribbean. read more

A: Even if Native Americans migrated from Asia, they have been here 20-30,000 years longer than Europeans. Whether or not you call that 'native' is up to you. read more

Yet these various North American peoples populated this continent more than long enough to be considered native, and a distinct set of people groups, as did any European, Australian, or South American continentals their nations. read more

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