A little late for Thanksgiving, but...

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(12-06-2016, 11:21 PM)wildcats forever Wrote: "Americans" always seem to pop in my mind when the subject comes up. After all, they were our 'first' Americans, especially since NO ONE else was around at the time. No sense in stating the obvious, eh? But, if you insist on saying "Native American", then (technically) the rest of us are 'aliens'.

Where do I go to get my free phone, healthcare, and Volkswagen for my driveway?

I use the term Native Americans pretty naturally (maybe because I am from a younger generation than OP's mother) but that is not true. When you say just Americans, you're referring to the United States of America. Otherwise then you would call Mexicans, Canadians, etc also as "Americans", but nobody has ever done that.

They are Native to America, but they aren't the first Americans.