You were right, you and I are native amerikans. We are natives living on stolen land.
Our culture is a joke, a concept forged to invisibility due to the profit motive of the system.
The land we live on is governed by violence; gender oppression, national oppression, sexual oppression, age oppression, species oppression, class oppression, etc.
We call this tyrannical empire "amerika," because the conquistador who stole the land of the southeastern nations that once inhabited the land now known as "florida," was named "amerigo vespucci," and he decided that this is amerika.
But the only reason that this is amerika, or that anyone is native to this land of tyranny is because turtle island, which was inhabited by over 500 nations of people, who lived largely egalitarian, and completely ecologically sound lives, was razed during the last five hundred years.
Amerika exists because 98% of the people who once lived on this isalnd were slaughtered.
Amerika exists because over 70% of the plant and animal life that once flourished here has been decimated.
Without this terror, there would be no room for concrete cities, or landfills, or piles of decaying cars, presidential fascism or institutional slavery, or cash - - there would be no amerika.
Amerika exists because we continue to claim allegiance to this home land.
We are stuck in the land of oppression, because we refuse to accept struggling to create a land of life.
By refusing to learn the history of this land, it's decimation and rebuilding, we refuse to build a future which can decimate this system and rebuild a new society.
Native people are native to turtle island.
Amerika is their tombstone.
And yes it's political, and yes this is the correct history.
But it's not "politically correct," as you understand it.
Just like you understand the racist lie that indigenous nations are "Indians," but it's simply not true. None of the people I am referring to are from the land known as India, so it is only the mentality of the slave master that keeps the term "Indian" a synonym of "indigenous."
And even terms such as "indigenous" and "native" are generalizations.
Every nation is known by two names. Firstly, they name themselves, in their own language. Second, they are named by their neighbors.
Even these names have been obliterated by european settlers.
The Lenape people, thanks to Lord De la Warr are now known as "delaware indians." The Dineh nation was renamed by the spanish as the "navaho." The list goes on and on.
And lastly, I should explain the concept of "cultural appropriation," because it is best understood in the perspective of indiegnous peoples.
So, the military occupation and annihilation of native peoples took place from the late 1400's to the early 1900's.
Although amerika has used military force since then to brutalize indigenous people, the latest form of genocide is cultural.
That is the traditions, the language, the economy, the government, the food, the spirituality, everything that makes up each individual nation is being either stolen, exploited, or destroyed.
With every christianized native person, every one who owns private property, who eats factory farmed meat products, who beats their wives and children, and so on, the culture of indigenous peoples dies.
In the case of the Lenape nation, only about half a dozen people know the traditional language. When the number reaches zero, there is no Lenape nation, regardless of blood line.
So it is important to understand that every hippie/new age trinket shop that sells "indian stuff," to make money and look "cool," is literally contributing to the total genocide of native people.
Every "men's organization," that practices native spirituality, without being adopted into a nation, or struggling for their liberation, is literally slaughtering the very thing they say that they are supporting.
So, this is cultural appropriation.
And this is why it's an important issue...
Now, in answer to my own question, I don't think my wearing dreadlocks is appropriating African culture, because I feel that there is strong evidence that Italian people wore their hair in locks traditionally. And also because I am in full solidarity with Black people's anti-colonial revolutionary struggles and will remain by their side until I die.
But, you didn't want the answer to my question.
You wanted to give me answers to questions I wasn't asking.
No matter.
Peace...through struggle, Until Freedom...