Are you a Native American? Yes I am. I'm a settler, a descendant of settlers, not from immigrants

[malthaussen]

7. I think her point is something like this...

(not that anyone cares what her point is, but you did ask)
The distinction she seems to be drawing here is between descent from individuals or families who stole land (and probably lives) from the indigenous peoples and homesteaded it, "creating wealth" as the slogan goes, and "putting land to use that was just being wasted" (another rationalization for the great land grab/genocide that lies at the root of the US). Whereas an immigrant (in this "rationale&quot is someone who came over later, when most of the spoils had already been divided, and made his living working for others in sweatshops and coal mines, a proletarian rather than one of the sturdy yeomanry that these people affect to think are the true backbone of the nation.

-- Mal