There's an issue with making it official. There's Puerto Rico, and people who's families have been in New Mexico since it was part of "Old" Mexico. I don't think it's necessary for the government to legislate what language people speak.
Yep, it does. What else sucks? The amazingly intellectually dishonest arguments people continually use trying to reference native americans and comparing that to immigrants today.
The settlers of the Americas did not come over here and attempt to "join" the Native Tribes. By and large, they were not seeking to try and become part of the Navajo or the Cherokee or the Mohawk. They came over, tried to claim plots of land as their own, and tried to start their own society and community separate from what was established, without seeking to be a part of what was here before.
That is SIGNIFICANTLY different than individuals coming into the American society, gaining citizenship under the American government, gaining benefits from the American system, etc.
A better equivalent would be a group of foreigners coming into the United States border, proclaiming a plot of American land “theirs”, and trying to create their own little society on it. A situation like THAT, the native American memes would make sense to….an “invading” group claims land that the original inhabitants also claimed. Of course, they’d likely be repelled by the United States government for doing so.
This is similar to the idiotic notion I saw earlier in the thread suggesting various native American languages were the “original” language. No, not it wasn’t. They were perhaps the original languages of the various locations around North America…but the original predominant language of “The United States of America” WAS English. It’s not inaccurate to suggest that, but it is inaccurate to portray various native tongues as what was “originally” the language here…because when speaking of a culture and a society the notion of a “land mass” isn’t the dividing line.
All the constant attempts to insert Native Americans into the conversation are is an attempt to appeal to emotion by bringing up a group of people that admittedly got a raw deal often in our countries history, and whose land we basically took by force (granted, this is the way much of the “official” land the world over has been claimed in some fashion or another).
There was no significant attempt by the settlers to “immigrate” into the tribes of the Americas. Rather, to be quite honest, it was an invasion and conquering of the land to form a new society within the boundries of the Americas. NOW…if you want to try and claim that immigrants coming into this country are trying to invade us, then perhaps the comparison is reasonable. But otherwise it’s not a good analog in the least.