Quoth Ellen Dannin:
> One of my colleagues who has worked on rights of indigenous peoples told
> me that the preferred term was Indians and not Native Americans in the
> eastern US as well as elsewhere for decades. He explained to me that the
> predominant feeling was that the latter term was regarded as almost
> insulting because it implied that they had the same status as all other
> hyphenated Americans when, in fact, they were here first.
Even more to the point, the term is inane re its initial purpose from
an etymological standpoint, since it covers anyone who manages to be
born here.
valis
(From now on I'll use my full sig only when jabbing
The Power in its ribs with my trusty halberd)
