Native American Citizenship Day 2024 is on Saturday, June 15, 2024: Is Terri Hatcher from Desparate Housewives a Native American ?

Saturday, June 15, 2024 is Native American Citizenship Day 2024.

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she is not native. she does not hold citizenship in any native nation nor do any of her relatives. she claims to have welsh ancestry just like Catherine Zeta-Jones. is she noticeably native too? she has no native blood at all.

why is it non natives think anyone with brown hair and brown eyes must have native blood? if that were the case, most of france and italy would be "part native".

seems all the stars are trying to claim native blood these days to make themselves seem more exotic.

and btw...she looks NOTHING like a native woman. we know what we look like, its just non natives who seem to have difficulties identifying us.

EDIT: "I'm not native American but it seems that I can pick a part Native better than some natives can."

bwahahaha @ the picture of terri's father who you are so sure is choctaw! you can sure pick them! so much for wikipedia. your apology is accepted even though you won't offer one.

EDIT2: so you are an australian who never met an actual american indian but you had the nerve to say you know what we look like better than we who actually ARE american indians do? see why we love white people so much?

Black vs. African American?

I don't understand it - unless you hold dual citizenship - you are American. If you hold a dual citizenship then you are African American. That's the only way that i think is logical.

Also - what about South Africans in American - they are technically "african american' aren't they? And from what i know - the majority of south african's are white.

I am American - but i am also white - i am 25% native american, 25% Italian and the rest is divided among Irish, Dutch and some other things some of which could be African - but i am american - white hienz 57 variety. If i was 'off the boat' from England, i would probably consider myself English, but me, my parents and 3 of my 4 grandparetns were born here - baby, i'm american!

I am not offended by being called white - b/c that's the color of my skin. And think of it this way - if there were five people standing in a room, divided by color, maybe 3 white peole and 2 black people - but the 3 white people were maybe one from South Africa, one from the USA and one from France and the black people, one from Spain and one from London - all living in the US now. If you refer to the "african american" - you're not referring to the 2 black folks. If you refer to the black man who is balding instead of the "african american" who is ... you have a more concise view. Most people mean no harm by saying "black" or "white".

I also think people are much too sensitive where race is concerned. There are many worse things to be called then black or white. American encompasses so many different things - America is a big melting pot - there are so many different traditions and beliefs that come with being "american".

I think it also depends on if you are asking if "Black" is offense considering race - back in the early days, race was commonly thought of as being three divisions of mankind; the Caucasian, the Mongoloid and the Negroid races. Webster's New World Dictionary has this definition:

RACE: Any of the major biological divisions of mankind, distinguished by color and texture of hair, color of skin and eyes, stature, bodily proportions, etc: many ethnologists now consider that there are only three primary divisions, the Caucasian (loosely ‘white race ), Negroid (loosely ‘black race ) and Mongoloid (loosely, ‘yellow race ), with various subdivisions: the term has acquired so many unscientific connotations that in this sense it is often replaced in scientific usage by ‘ethic stock or ‘group .”

Good question and some very interesting answers.

were native american indians prospective citizens?

american indians were claimed by the usa government as citizens in 1924. to this day, some refuse to be claimed by the occupying forces of usa and canada and retain citizenship in our own native nations only.

american indians who are usa citizens do not renounce their tribal citizenship. they hold dual citizenship.