On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 23:27:29 +0100 Heinz Tuechler <tuech...@gmx.at> wrote:
> One may remember that people who might feel offended by "Indian Red" > (Native Americans) make up less than 0.5 percent of all "Indians". > It is hardly the fault of the people of India that Native Americans > were called Indians by an Italian navigator who thought he had landed > in India. I have worked with and know or knew probably somewhere near 100 American Indians. None of them were "offended" by "Indian," most referred to themselves as "Indian," particularly when few outsiders could even pronounce their tribal names. Several of them referred me to the works and words of Russel Means, Ogalala Lakota, an actor and activist, who mocked the use of phrases such as "Native American" as silly, and easily as offensive and racist in its failure to distinguish among tribal peoples as any such sweeping label could be. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
