Though nearly everyone knows the history of people dressing up as Indians in the Boston Tea Party, not many people have paid attention into analyzing the reason behind people's actions of doing this. While some people have given the response of having using it to serve the purpose of secrecy, the reason that underlies this particular action is much more complex. As a nation, America seems to have a more ambiguous meaning in its identity than many other countries. While countries in the old world has the majority of its population being decendants of people on its own land, Americans, except for Native Americans, are newcomers to its land and thus have no connections to it in their ancestry. Therefore, the American national identity could not avoid being linked to that of the Indians since they are native to this land and it seeems that unless Indians are assimilated into the American national culture or wiped out completely, American identity cannot become mature by itself. Every time the United States tries to express something uniquely about itself, people tend to dress up as Indians to become the real owners of land, which has been an inevitable and unique phenomenon of American culture.