An entertaining read

I was married for six years to a full-blooded Cherokee who was a licensed Nurse.  In her spare time, she was a historian, author and lecturer on Indian culture.  If you were to say Native American in front of her, she'd laugh in your face because there was no such thing.  Indians were nomads that migrated across the bearing sea from Asia and claimed North America as their own.  History and genealogy prove that.  Her Cherokee name was little white dove, we were married by a Cherokee Holy Man and our daughter was baptized Morning Dove by the same Holy Man.

Ashes to Ashes and Dust to dust!  Like the band Kansas sang, "all we are is just dust in the wind.  Here's a good listen....  Kansas - Dust in the Wind (Official Video) - YouTube

I wish they would have asked how much was spent on legal fees.

@chris-bouffard 

For a brief three years I was married to a  woman that was 3/4 Cherokee. She wasn't raised Cherokee and never tried to learn about her heritage. My present wife is a small part Cherokee. I've always studied the Native Americans with fascination thanks to a 5th grade social studies teacher that taught about Native Americans the whole year.

@stacy-carroll I guess you are missing my point.  The Cherokee or any other Indian nation were not native to North America.  They migrated here and claimed it their own but lost it because they could not defend it against the mostly European settlers that arrived by ship.  At first, they were welcoming and then became hostile.

My home is located I Shamong, NJ and was the site of the first ever Indian reservation.  The entire are was inhabited by the Leni Lenape tribe who were also nomadic, traveling down south to different areas of the Jersey Atlantic coast to fish and harvest shellfish and then back to the Shamong area to winter.

The town name of Shamong, in Leni Lenape language translates to the Land of the Big Horn, meaning big buck deer.  The reservation was established at the start of the French & Indian war and the Village name for Shamong is Indian Mills because of a missionary named John Brainard who tried to convert them to Christianity and built a school to try to educate their young, as well as saw mills to provide them with income.

I can go on and on with this topic all day long but the end point that the Native American label is an absolute fallacy. 

I didn't miss the point, I agree with you. They likely displaced any that were already here as well. However, I can't think of a term to describe the people in general that were in this country before us. Indigenous? Aboriginal? Neither seem to fit.