Native Americans

[Platypus]

i'm not a native australian. I'm an anglo-celtic 'skip' Australian. Basically, my family has been here for three or more generation and came from europe. I have no aboriginal blood in me, and I don't know many people that do.

We don't really have the term "Native Australians" here. The Skips are skips, the other european immigrants are immigrants, or 'new australians', or the formerly-derogatory-now-not-dergatory term 'wogs'; asian immigrants are immigrants or 'asian immigrants' and the aboriginies are either aborigines or islanders, depending on where they are from, or for both grups, 'indigenous australians'

'indigenous americans' is the term most commonly used in the australian media when talking about american indians; 'idigenous alaskans' for eskimos and 'hawaiians' for hawaiians. I presume at least the last would be similar in the US :S

[Platypus]

Thats a bit too 'airy' for me.


What was your...first nation? kinda sucks. Everyone's 'first nation' was somewhere in Southern Africa, anyway.