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Old 12-31-2009, 09:38 PM
 
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What's with the "Native Americans"? Don't they prefer to be called American Indians or just Indians?
My wife's an Indian. I've never heard either her, her sisters, or our kids or grandkids call themselves 'Native Americans'; that's a term mostly heard in PC public settings, public speaking, or print, in my experience. In our family, it's only used in 'jest'.

I would imagine relatively few Canadian Indians use the term 'First Nations' among themselves, in private, either...though this is just a guess on my part.

 
Old 12-31-2009, 09:42 PM
 
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Exactly. It's the National Museum of the American Indian here in DC, not the National Museum of the Native American.
 
Old 12-31-2009, 10:27 PM
 
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You might want to read these articles before setting that statement in marble.

Were American Indians the Victims of Genocide?

Genocide of Natives in the Western Hemisphere, starting 1492 CE
Michael Medved : Reject the Lie of White "Genocide" Against Native Americans - Townhall.com "The early colonists and settlers can hardly qualify as perfect but describing them in Hitlerian, mass-murdering terms represents an act of brain-dead defamation."
 
Old 12-31-2009, 10:31 PM
 
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So who exactly described the colonists as "Hitlerian"?
 
Old 12-31-2009, 10:33 PM
 
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So who exactly described the colonists as "Hitlerian"?
Do you understand what Genocide means ?
 
Old 12-31-2009, 10:37 PM
 
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Do you understand what Genocide means ?
Wasn't one a "cleansing", and the other a "clearing"?
 
Old 12-31-2009, 10:40 PM
 
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Do you understand what Genocide means ?
Yes, the U.S. practiced it, but not on much of a scale with the Indians. It was a popular tactic with late 19th/early 20th century Republican administrations.
 
Old 12-31-2009, 10:45 PM
 
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Yes, the U.S. practiced it, but not on much of a scale with the Indians. It was a popular tactic with late 19th/early 20th century Republican administrations.
You have obviously already begun to indulge for new years....................after that post, it is evident we wont be having an educated debate.
 
Old 12-31-2009, 10:46 PM
 
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what of it would you dispute? I'm not sure which position you're coming from. There was an Indian genocide or the U.S. never practiced genocide?
 
Old 12-31-2009, 10:49 PM
 
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what of it would you dispute? I'm not sure which position you're coming from. There was an Indian genocide or the U.S. never practiced genocide?
Michael Medved : Reject the Lie of White "Genocide" Against Native Americans - Townhall.com
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