seconsulter:

          “———— I’ve never met a Native American before.”

                           _{❝——-Well, technically, we call ourselves Indian.❞
                  ❝Loads of people think we prefer Native American but —— ❞
                                     ❝…we were here, before the Americans.❞
 
        ❝I don’t want to get into all that political stuff that Leah rags on about all the time, but sometimes I can’t help but agree with her.}❞
              _{❝A lot of native people, from any tribe, really—will tell you it’s sort of offensive to call us…’Native American’. We didn’t even choose to call this country America. And—…we were here first.}❞

                            _{❝I don’t want to get into that, though.❞
 ❝Harry used to work in treaties and stuff, and ‘locality’, that’s what he called it. He said that the legal term for people like me, and my family, is ‘the indigenous’.❞}