Posted on 06/17/2018 9:02:46 AM PDT by rktman
"Native American" is an offensive term, not to the people who it is used to describe, but everyone else born in the United States. The term "Native American" implies the rest of us aren't Native American. Most Americans are in fact native, meaning we were born here or to American parents. Having a group of Americans called "Native Americans" seems to delegitimize the rest of us, putting us on a lower moral grounds than the "Natives".
The term "Native Americans" is also ridiculous in that ancestors of these individuals were present before America was formed.
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I’ve never used the term “Native Americans” so I cannot stop using it. Before we had so many immigrants from Indian I called our Cherokees and Chickasaws “Indians”. Now I sometimes have to say, “American Indians”.
If you ever been to Rosebud or Pineridge? “ putting us on a lower moral grounds than the “Natives””
I have never used the term. It always struck me as ridiculous.
It’s time you quit getting a kick out of It’s Time articles. LOL!
There are no Native Americans except for the trees.
The ancestors of all of the people came from other continents.
As far as tribal people go, they can be referred to by their tribe, and that should work well.
Aboriginal Americans?
I thought Canuckistanis called them ‘First Nations’.
Ohhh, ohhh, ohhhh. First “immigrants”!
In Alaska the native population is referred to as “Alaska Native” by everyone, including Alaska Natives. I don’t see that changing any time soon.
“First Nation” is what the Canadian natives use.
And here I thought the Native Canadians called themselves Eskimos..................
I was in Canada recently, near Banff, at a national park. I was talking with one of their park officials, who mentioned that the term, First Nations peoples is now the proper terminology. I think I had said, Canadian Indians when he corrected me.
Makes sense. They are the first known nation in that area
Your lucky they didn’t boot your butt out of justine land. LOL!
The best thing that could happen to “native Americans” is to fully integrate them into society as just regular Americans.
ancestors of these individuals were present before America was formed.
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My ancestors arrived in “the New World” in 1623...
Before Chappaquiddick, one scandal involving Senator Ted Kennedy was being drunk on a flight returning from Alaska and he was running up and down the aisle shouting “Eskimo Power”.
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