we're one human race and I'm as much a native as anybody else...
“...we’re one human race...”
I was talking to an Indian and asked him what tribe he was. He gave me the Indian pronounciation and laughed. I laughed too, then asked him what I would know it as.
“It means ‘The People’. We don’t have names for the tribes like you do - that’s a white man’s invention. The people is a tribe, just like the bears or the eagles are a tribe.”
“You were all one tribe?”
“Well ‘The People’ was the tribe - but we were in different groups, its not like we were going to raid and steal and get slaves from our own group!”
(I don’t recall exactly, but I don’t think he said they had names for those other groups. I may be wrong.)