Posted on 06/17/2018 9:02:46 AM PDT by rktman
I usually ask “Dot Indians or feather Indians?”
When I was a kid we didn’t play Cowboys and “Native Americans”.
My ancestors were born in Scandinavia. I was born here. I always check the “Native American” box when asked for my origin.
We commonly used Aboriginal Americans. Or red skins.
Having been born before the middle of the last century, I consider myself an American with Irish ancestors.
Also, My Grandfather was also born in the ‘New World’ before the turn of the century and my Mothers Mother claimed to be DAR descendants...so
I also remember the kids playing Cowboys & Indians(I played ball) - can you imagine how quick that game would have ‘died’ had it been Cowboys & Native Americans?
Then again more people may have played if called NA- because the ‘Indians’ always seemed to lose...In Cleveland-except for 1948 and the Boston Braves had to leave town and Washington Redskins had only won one Championship back in the day.
...Like the Indian casino worker who said, “Now we have another way for you to get scalped.”
Indians get special treatment but still remain in poverty...on the reservations. I once worked with a guy who judging by his looks had to be close to full blooded. He was very vocal about the corruption with the hierarchy on the reservation and how it was virtually impossible to make a living. Mostly welfare with a lot of alcoholism mixed in. This has been several years ago!!!
Why not? Canada, well as, Brazil, Chile, and the Caribbean, for that matter, are all in America.
And while I now you were speaking with tongue firmly in cheek about African Americans, I do believe that any hyphenated American is offensive. I am an American first! While only being first generation and proud of my ancestral heritage, I don't run around calling myself a __________ American on holidays or any other day. It's just another way for the liberals to divide the people. We're not Americans, we're Mex's, Afro's, German, Irish, Aussie, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Philippine, insert the country ethnic group first, and that's the way the democraps like it!
Injuns
That’s what I call the red man
Cowboys and injuns
Los indios.
My dad was full Cherokee. The family calls ourselves Cherokee but if we’re talking about all tribes in general, we say Indians. I was called out by a lib white woman at a manager’s meeting one time for saying “Indians”, telling me I should say “native Americans”, so as not to be a bigot. I informed her, that as a Cherokee we called ourselves Indians and I didn’t appreciate white people telling me how to talk. She shut up.
Most “native Americans” refer to themselves as Indians, or by tribe. But, hey. They were here first. They can call themselves anything they want.
My husband, who is an Indian, and has lived in Alaska, would take exception to that.
Except of course that is PC nonsense--as there was never one nation among the (constantly) warring tribes in the Americas. Tribes generally hated other tribes as much or more as they hated whites.
Even the word "nation" is exalted--as these were tribes--that is those related to each other in extended families & clans.
Well, they aren’t from India...
First Nation is a newer title; my husband has shirttail relatives there; they NEVER call themselves that, amongst each other. They call themselves by their tribal affiliation.
The correct term and a hat tip to our Auatralian and Canadian friends is Aborigines
Well, they weren’t here first, and I don’t play those pc games. It doesn’t even matter who was where and when. We’re all children of God, we should act like it.
I just call em injuns anyway.
Most don’t care, in fact most injuns I know just laugh when I do that.
Trust me. They’re laughing AT you, not WITH you.
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