My son's gf corrected me and insisted on indigenous people.

Yeah but the word America comes with its own negative connotations. Look up Sherman Alexie. He explains his take fairly well.

READ Sherman Alexie. He’s quite good and insightful.

Blame the Spanish.

don’t blame anyone. it’s a simple mistake

true, but the name has been used for my people for so long that it’s just indian

The British named it India. The Americans named American natives Indians. Indian means native.

who landed here first? Indians or East Indians? I did not play cowboys and native americans/indigenous people when I was growing up I played cowboys and indians dammit!

ok, learn to be open minded dammit!

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But what about like a trans person? They can prefer a gender and identify as it even if they technically aren’t that gender, so why can’t they do it?

you need a nap. you're getting all silly and non-sequiter again...

All of my NA friends and family call themselves indians.

Yes and calling ourselves Indian is different than non-indigenous people calling us Indians! That’s like saying well Black people use the N-word I can too lol no.

words are words, if you ban the use of a word it should be banned for everyone. if you don't like the way it's interpreted today, change the meaning. like gay no longer means happy, bud no longer means flower.. change the meaning!

Indians came over on the Bering Land Bridge, there were no other people here to greet them so they get first dibs on being Indian. but mind you the East Indians are going to take over North America like they are doing Britain, one store at a time.

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First Nations are not all Indians just a few selected tribes. and so far every one I've talked with prefers the term Indian and I'm Canadian.

I get it, I’m Mexican American and some people refer to me as Latino, Hispanic or just Mexican. I honestly don’t care, but some citizens or Americans have different customs, languages, housing considerations, healthcare needs, etc. So while I don’t believe that any one group is better, I realize that there are many differences amongst groups that are good to be knowledgeable about.

if you're born in United States then you're American.claiming your ancestery in your identity is nice but get over it.we won't get over this prejudice till we stop dividing ourselves into groups. My mother was Irish my dad Canadian. His parents Canadian, his grand parents Scottish. I'm Canadian. not Irish/scott/canadian

https://parade.com/710805/marilynvossavant/the-difference-between-america-and-the-united-states/#:~:text=The%20term%20America%20(or%20the,a%20country%20in%20North%20America.

It only takes one bad Austin to screw it up for the rest of us.

There's lots of arguments about the most politically correct way to refer to American Indians. For those in America (and more Ojibwe are actually Canadian), the name most commonly preferred by Indians is "American Indian," but since they had very little in common before colonization, there isn't one simple preference, and most American Indians are OK with any of several terms. Recognizing that they've been lumped together by outside forces, I try to respect the more specific names, like Ojibwe, when possible.

Ojibwe is a "tribe" of American Indian/Canadian First Nations member that lived in Ontario, Canada and the Northern reaches of Minnesota and Wisconsin, USA. (I put "tribe" in quotes, because although traditionally such peoples are called "tribes" in American pop culture, they're really several bands of people collectively far larger than a tribe, and united by a dialect and culture; calling them a "tribe" is almost like calling Slavs or Celts or Franks a "tribe.")

Thank you so much!

No, no I’m not. If we originated in Africa, EVERYBODY migrated to somewhere else