Okay, I'm still here for the time being and I have a question. American Indian or Native American?
I'm watching Tavis Smiley interview Dick Wolfe on PBS and he just said that that the "politically correct" terminology was now American Indian instead of Native American.
Who says so? When did this happen? He says it's settled because the Smithsonian opened a museum named The Museum of the American Indian.
So what? I'm part Cherokee and part Catawba and I'm sure that my great(+)grandmothers had nothing whatsoever to do with the West Indies, or India.
I don't know that either offends me personally, however, we are referring to peoples native to the continents of the America's, so Native American simply sounds more correct.
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Indian confuses people. Native is accurate but so are most of us after a few generations. Amerind?
Good to see you posting.
Interesting,but quite provocative :)
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