Funny. The folks who live on the Reservations (and I know a lot of them) prefer the title "Indians." Better, they prefer the titles "Apache" or "Potawattomi" or "Objiway" or "Shoshone" and even better, "Lemhi Shoshone" or "Citizen Potawattomi". I've been told several times "Call me an Indian. Anyone born here is a 'Native American.'" And they associate "aboriginal" with "extremely primitive naked people living off long-dead rabbits" (that's what I was told).

An archealogist of the Mountain Ute also pointed out that since humans evolved (as far as we know) in Africa, we're ALL immigrants. He would also like Colorado back....