[Svartalfiar]

You have African-Americans, Irish-Americans, etc.; so, shouldn’t that be “Indian-Americans”?

Feather = American Indian
Dot = Indian-American.

No. Read my sentence again - I said someone from the US who moved TO India.

Irish-American: Born Ireland, moved to US
Indian-American: Born India, moved to US
American-Irish: Born US, moved to Ireland
American-Indian: Born US, moved to India
Native American: Someone born in the US and raised there.
Native to America: Born in the US, but implies not raised there.
African-American: Born in Africa, moved to US. Almost all US blacks do not fit this!
Your 'feather' people would be best described as tribal Americans, or use their actual names: Cherokee, Crow, Pawnee, Shoshone, Seminole. Ute, Navajo, Apache, Pingon, Shasto, Tawakoni, Kiowa, Tonkawa, Kichai, Caddo, Wichita, Blackfoot, Paiute, etc etc.

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Why don't you take their land and buffalo away while you're at it?

American-Indian: Born US, moved to India

They are so rare one probably don't have to worry about them.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

I’ve felt compelled to ask several posters to reread something I wrote. Now, it seems I’m the transgressor. How embarassing.

BTW, FWIW, I’m a card-carrying “Aborigional Canadian”; but, I prefer just “Canadian”. With today’s plague of identity politics, we have too much “tribalism”.