Non-Native is not co-opting the term non-Black. The term non-Native has existed for hundreds of years. Indian Affairs has used it since at least the 50′s.
Some old examples that I spent about 10 minutes using Google Books to find of the term non-Native being used for people who are not Indigenous -
Directory of comparative colonial documentation (1836):
Recorded United States Hearings (1938):
Alaskan Mental Institute’s admission records (1950-1954):
Contained treaties and international agreements issued by the Secretary of State as United States treaties and other international agreements (1957):
Comparatively, the earliest search result for the term non-Black used for people who are not Black, is from the American Statistical Association’s Proceedings of the Social Statistics in 1969:
I'm not here to get into a debate on if it is appropriate to use a term like ‘non-Asian.’ I am only saying that while if you were to look up ‘non-Asian,’ you will see zero results. That is new. But ‘non-Native’ and ‘non-Black’ are both two different terms with two different histories. Neither is new, and neither is derivative of the other.
