SuStel:

> You keep saying "native american." Be

> aware that in the United States, this

> phrase, capitalized, refers to a member of

> an indigenous tribe, not to any natural-

> born citizen of the US.

I didn't know that. So how does one describe people born and raised in the u.s.a?

Just "americans", or does he need each time to say the entire "natural born citizen of the u.s.a"?

In English, the only simple word we have for it is American. I remember the delight I experienced in high school when I learned that Spanish had a separate word for it, estadounidense.

In Canada, the indigenous tribes are called First Peoples. Canadians are familiar that US English uses Native American instead (though many Americans aren't equally familiar with the Canadian term), so I'm not sure how a Canadian would interpret the phrase native American. They'd probably just assume  you were using the US English term.

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