Redskin Was an American Indian Creation The gold-standard work on the etymology of red skin was conducted by Smithsonian Senior Linguist, Ives Goddard, in 2005. I am a Red-skin: Adoption of a Native American Expression (1769-1826), goes into painstaking detail exploring the first appearance of the term redskin in the Americas and concludes the following:
The word redskin reflects a genuine Native American idiom that was used in several languages, where it grew out of an earlier established and more widespread use of red and white as racial labels. This terminology was developed by Native Americans to label new categories of the new ethnic and political reality that they confronted with the coming of the Europeans.
In the early 1800s, the term red-skin was used by American Indian leaders to create a sense of supra-tribal identity when negotiating with the US Federal Government. It was intended to reference American Indian solidarity and unity, and to contrast these collected individuals with their whiteskin negotiating partners (e.g., the French, British, and former American colonists).
read this and stop embarrassing yourselves.i trust our native american friend will take the time to learn about his own history too.