Well gosh Wayne, the same can be said about your Spainish descendants.
Before the Europeans settled this country Indian wars existed among the other tribes in disputes over territories. I have an Indian heritage also but part of the problem for the native Indian is that they sold out . The last time they had any real unification was at the battle of Little Big Horn but that was too little and too late.
My family has been here at least since the 1790 census. There is no census b4 that time. We believe the family has been here much longer than that but have found no reliable records of such.
As to the quip about getting stamped by a "native" american. Funny you would call them native "americans". LOL Be that as it may, just in case you missed it.......they lost the war! And so did the Mexicans. And it is painfully obvious that neither the Native americans, nor the Mexicans have any idea how to run a country. Have you been to any reservations up here lately? They are all bombed out ghettos. They wanted self rule, we gave it to them and they do nothing with it but build gambling casinos and drink themselves into oblivion. Your pious whining about the Native people is lost on me bubb. I was married to a Native and have seen first hand the "plight" of those people and it is their OWN fault. And we CONTINUE to support them with Gov't welfare at every turn. Until they can support themselves, they have NO RESPECT from me. The same goes for the Mexican people. Until they can build and support their OWN country, they got nothing coming. And they can stay home and not break into this country illegally.