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Born in San Francisco. That makes me a native of America. I’m of Hungarian decent. Now my friends from the local tribe prefer to be called Indians and not native Americans. Same case where I use to live 250 miles away.
Actually most tribes prefer to be called Indians. So why do white people use the term Native American?
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I am part Indian. Spent a long time in areas with large Indian populations. Never heard an Indian refer to himself/herself as a Native American. Never.
Yeah it seems obvious to me the term arose to distinguish them from people actually from India, which are also often referred to as Indians. As mentioned this was the original error made when people first started calling America’s inhabitants that, because at first people thought the new world was India.
Born in San Francisco. That makes me a native of America. I’m of Hungarian decent. Now my friends from the local tribe prefer to be called Indians and not native Americans. Same case where I use to live 250 miles away.
Actually most tribes prefer to be called Indians. So why do white people use the term Native American?
I'm oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus...for the most part.
Less than 1% of me is potassium, sulfur, sodium, chlorine, and magnesium.
In perhaps my earliest form I was stardust.
It's been one helluva ride!
Interesting.
You are made of 7 trillion-trillion-trillion atoms. That's 7, followed by 27 zeroes.
Every single one of them has been here for some 14 billion years.
And after you are gone, they will all still be here.
So it doesn't really matter where you were born, does it?
Being respectful would be asking American Indians what they prefer to be called. Being respectful is not forcing people to call American Indians "Native Americans" and to change the names of sports teams because of some misguided sense of political correctness. The latter is just social justice idiocy.
I have relatives that still live on reservations. Not one of them refers to themself as "Native American." They will refer to themselves by which tribe they belong to, as Indian, as American Indian, or in some cases as "the first people." The term Native American is very rarely used, and only when others can't figure out which kind of Indian they are.
I was born in America, so I'm a native American. I'm also a Californian and an Angelino. But a lot of people claim that California rightfully belongs to Mexico, so does that make me Mexican? And what about the native Americans in California? Are they also Mexicans? Or are they Americans? Big "N" Native Americans?
I wish we could all just be people.
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