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by userbinator 453 days ago
First native Americans.
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Had there been other Americans before them?
They are not native. They are native to africa like all other humans. humans arrived in amierica via asia first.
Then, necessarily, no creature is native, since the world is covered by creatures with a common ancestor/geographic location: they all migrated.
You are so close to enlightenment!
I suspect "enlightenment" is that the inverse is also true, but I think that this concept, as most are, is not reversible. In the animal kingdom, invasive species are often a detriment to the local species. In the human world, incoming cultures are often a detriment/disruption to local cultures. This is especially true when the incoming culture has an incompatible value system. For example, see the many examples of Islam and Christianity decimating/erasing local cultures, over the centuries. The value system can be so out of whack that you end up with genocide of the native populations, like in Canada, USA, and Australia. The tricky part is that the very perception of "disruption" depends on if a culture is valued or not, with many modern cultures have little/no accepted value. Related, this is why religious cultures are the most disruptive: religion is culture that's strictly defined in a personal way, with high personal value, so high rigigity. Rigid things don't mesh well.
"Native" can mean many things. Your usage is one of them.

Another usage is that people are native to where they were born.

Then I'm native american. Not what nost people want that lable to mean. (Though the ones I know who are that don't care at all)