Disrespected in my own yard.

[tripleblessed]

Anyway with someone so in tune with their heritage I just don't understand being so rude about mine.

Many, probably more accurately most, indigenous peoples of whatever continent had a name for themselves. In their own language, this typically meant "people", or "The People". By definition, anyone else was NOT PEOPLE. If you aren't people, you have no heritage or religion and therefore are open to whatever use People choose to make of you. Many were reasonably friendly, some were not. Remembering that we're all cousins can get us beyond such limited thinking. Much anthropology was written from an outsider's viewpoint, and the subtleties of the languages was often not understood by the writers. Also, in some cases these details were not translated by those not wishing to appear as bigoted as they actually were. That was then. Now we can do it differently.