There's no need to worry about confusion, Indian-American always means ancestry or origin in India. Native American is the usual term in the US for the indigeno

There's no need to worry about confusion, Indian-American always means ancestry or origin in India. Native American is the usual term in the US for the indigenous, although many of them call themselves Indians and prefer it, a generation ago it was American Indian, but it's never been the other way around, hyphen or otherwise.