The meaning of indigenous

The nutwagon radicals involved in last weekend's "Constitutional rights for those refusing to take an oath to the constitution" rally seem confused over their own history. Or perhaps not. Consider a statement by "Mexica", a childish little amalgam of the words America and Mexico designed to impress people like Ward Churchill:

The only solution, says the Mexica Movement, is to expel the invaders of the last 500 years, force them to pay reparations and return the continent to its rightful heirs.

The invaders have already been expelled. I thought maybe they meant the Indians or others still unknown who first inhabited the continent.

But their dilemma is clear--it's hard to make an argument that people who descended from Spanish Europeans have more right to the continent than those of English, German or French descent. It's also hard to make the case that Americans who took over the southwest were anymore racist or brutal than their Spanish Conquistador predecessors who took over the southwest.

If nothing else the rally was example of the current mindset of thousands and perhaps millions of Mexicans who are largely ignored while doing the menial jobs Americans wouldn't do for that same wage. They are building themselves into a powder keg and it may be too late for Congress to defuse it, should they actually desire to.