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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 6281350" data-attributes="member: 9037">Actually they used the ancient rubber tree people of central America as the basis for his tribe. Which granted they never gave a name to. One of the reasons at least according to what Robert Beltran said was that they did not want to pin it down and speculate on how a native American tribe would be in the 24 century. Which person claimed to be Native American but was actually Greek Armenian? This is the first I have heard of that. But lying about your heritage that is a no no but why can't a Greek Armenian create a Native American character?Star Trek has always used basically generic characters since Next Gen almost all the humans are Americans with the exception of Picard who is French played by an English actor who used his English accent. I don't see outrage over that. Yet because they do a generic Native American some how that is bad. Why do Native Americans deserve special treatment but not the French? It is a SF show set 400 years in the future who is to say that many tribes will still exist and not have main streamed into the mainstream culture?</blockquote>