Native American is probably the most offensive term in the liberal lexicon. Born in the U.S., of entirely Irish ancestry, I am a native American.
If American Indians don't like the name, find something that doesn't disenfranchise me and others equally qualified to claim our native American birthright.
"Native American" is another of those terms foisted on people by the leftists.
I saw 2 of the Navajo (I think) Windtalkers on LKL one night, after the movie Windtalkers came out. These 2 were among the Indians recruited by the military during WWII who used their own languages to send messages that could not be figured out by our enemies, because the languages are so obscure.
Larry K asked them "Does it offend you to be called Indian?", and they said no, absolutely not.
There was just some discussion the other day on one of the radio shows I listen to (could have been Laura Ingraham) talking about how sports teams have had to change their names from things like the Indians, and there was a comment that the majority of Indians don't mind at all that the name is used by teams.
This whole issue is just more pc nonsense from the left, trying to cause divisiveness. (Yes, I agree, we're all Native Americans if we were born here!)