What, did you expect a new lineage of humans to evolve separately there or something? Of course "native" can be arbitrarily limited to mean 1000s or 10,000s of

What, did you expect a new lineage of humans to evolve separately there or something? Of course "native" can be arbitrarily limited to mean 1000s or 10,000s of years, but even after slavery those people lived there for at least five or six generations. So from the perspective of the people being forcibly removed, getting their pet dogs gassed by the military, it really wouldn't fucking matter. And the Wikipedia article says they're "native", which you explicitly claimed was not the case.