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Ive gone back and forth between the two over the years

I usually say Native American, if we're talking about indigenous peoples from the Americas.

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g0ldie posted...

I usually say Native American, if we're talking about indigenous peoples from the Americas.

Pretty much. Indian in my mind means people from India.

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Native American make a bit more sense...except for the fact that, the content wasn't called America at the time.

I don't see Indian as being as derogatory as some would suggest.

If anything not breaking it up into tribes would be worse.

Huron or Mohawk...You tell me.

I am okay with the term Native American though.
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Indian until I learned what are Indians

Then I stuck with Indians for Indians

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As an actual Indian, I prefer they go by Native American.

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East Indian

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Native American is missused it should be any one born in America thats what other countries do for example pick any country and if you are born there you are a native, a native German would be someone born in Germany, native japanese-someone born in Japan, native American- not someone born in America

Calling them Indian is inaccurate. There's already an ethnic group which has that title.

If you call them American Indian, it makes a distinction that they're not Indian-Indian. Of course, that might still be confusing if you call Americans of actual Indian descent Indian American.

As a non-American, if you say "Indian", you're referring to people from the country of India.

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as a native american, native american

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I'm fine with anything except for "first nations"

They weren't nations. Christ. At least, Indian, while incorrect, was conceived during an Era when American wasn't known to be a continent.

Girlfriend says she prefers referring to a specific tribe if applicable, native american or first nations if not.

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AldousIsDead posted...

Girlfriend says she prefers referring to a specific tribe if applicable, native american or first nations if not.

THEY WERENT FUCKING NATIONS
GOD DAMIT

/TRIGGERED

Winrawr posted...

THEY WERENT FUCKING NATIONS
GOD DAMIT

/TRIGGERED

Don't look at me man, it's her opinion.

First nations.

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Native Americans

The only reason they were ever called American Indians is because fuckboy Columbus insisted that he landed in India. And we all know that's wrong, unless you were born into generations of morons and are a moron yourself. In which case, here's the news that it's wrong.

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Winrawr posted...

THEY WERENT FUCKING NATIONS
GOD DAMIT

/TRIGGERED

so they cant call themselves nations anymore, You go tell someone in the Apache nation he is wrong

sabrestorm posted...

so they cant call themselves nations anymore, You go tell someone in the Apache nation he is wrong

They were never nations. You should look up what a nation is. The only true nations were the Aztec and Mayan empires. The vast majority lived in communal tribes, especially in the Canadian-American regions.

3PiesAndAFork posted...

As an actual Indian, I prefer they go by Native American.

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The preferred nomenclature is to address them by their tribal membership.

If you can't do that for some reason, Indian is a safer bet in casual conversation than Native American.

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Tyranthraxus posted...

The preferred nomenclature is to address them by their tribal membership.

If you can't do that for some reason, Indian is a safer bet in casual conversation than Native American.

"Oh you're Indian? Which part, north or south?"
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I just say Indian then call it a day.

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Native Americans, because I actually am Indian, from the country of India. Never heard of First Nations, though. I like it.

Vicious_Dios posted...

I just say Indian then call it a day.

Being ignorant doesn't make you chill lol

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both of these are considered offensive in my country.

Goes to show what the baseline level is in America


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how do you identify someones tribe without directly asking

Master Kazuya posted...

Being ignorant doesn't make you chill lol

VD probably calls them much worse in reality

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Native american, indians are people that hail from India don't know how that ever got twisted.

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American Indian

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Middle hope posted...

American Indian

Might as well call them a Mediterranean Eskimo if you wanted to be as incorrect as you already were.

trappedunderice posted...

Native american, indians are people that hail from India don't know how that ever got twisted.

Seriously?

Columbus thought he landed in India and called the people "Indios".

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Why the fuck would you call someone from India a Native American? Dumbest topic I've seen in a while.

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I say Native Americans when discussing people. However, sometimes I work with "Indian Gaming Law" which has always been "Indian" and is called that even by people that are tribal members.

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brestugo posted...

Seriously?

Columbus thought he landed in India and called the people "Indios". He was so lost he actually landed in the Caribbean on what is now part of the Bahamas and never set foot on North America.

@trappedunderice

Native American.

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Also dude, Indian is not the preferred nomenclature...Native American, please.

I like NA better because it's silly to have two groups being called the same thing.

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So do the people confused by the word Indian think that Indian casinos are run by a bunch of Hindus?

Someone who is half Indian and half Native American would probably get really annoyed by some people in this topic.

Also I imaging them having the coolest accent and idioms.

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Typically Native American in general, sometimes I'll call them "Amerindians" if talking to someone who calls them indians. Of course if talking about a specific tribe then that, as I'm sure the various tribes didn't think of themselves as one ethnic group until Europeans arrived and out of respect for each tribe's individuality I deal with their name first.

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The_Hat posted...

Someone who is half Indian and half Native American would probably get really annoyed by some people in this topic.

Also I imaging them having the coolest accent and idioms.

The accent would depend on where they grew up/the people around them and not there heritage. @The_Hat

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spikethedevil posted...

The accent would depend on where they grew up/the people around them and not there heritage. @The_Hat

My previous post is assuming their family isn't divorced and they have at least one relative native to those areas.

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I usually say Native American so people don't get confused with those from India

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As someone who's a small part Mative American(Cherokee and Blackfoot, I believe), my family's always referred to it by Native American over all else. So I'll go with that.

I, personally, hate the term Indigenous Folk. It sounds insulting. Idk why.
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sabrestorm posted...

Native American is missused it should be any one born in America thats what other countries do for example pick any country and if you are born there you are a native, a native German would be someone born in Germany, native japanese-someone born in Japan, native American- not someone born in America

Those countries have a very different history. If Japanese people would have suffer a genocide, their land invaded, occupied and renamed by hostile foreigners, maybe we would name differently the survivors.

brestugo posted...

Seriously?

Columbus thought he landed in India and called the people "Indios". He was so lost he actually landed in the Caribbean on what is now part of the Bahamas and never set foot on North America.

I met Columbus, wasn't anything like that.

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Herbette posted...

Those countries have a very different history. If Japanese people would have suffer a genocide, their land invaded, occupied and renamed by hostile foreigners, maybe we would name differently the survivors.

To be fair... that's sorta what happened to Japan, it was just far more ancient in comparison to the U.S. (the current Japanese people, aka the Yayoi weren't the original inhabitants)

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I've always used Native American. Between school and work, most of the older folks referred to themselves as such if they didn't use their specific tribe. Some of the people around my age seem to use the term Indigenous people more.

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You call them by their tribe name or Injun. most other answers are inappropriate

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Pretty sure injun would be offensive.

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