What do native Americans call themselves as a whole? I don't want to go by tribal names as that's too granular. But when I talk about Native Americans I rather use the term they call themselves, rather than what non-native Americans call them. It's not about being respectful to native Americans or anti-cac. It's about un-laziness and accuracy. Indians is also a word that isn't very accurate as it is, again, what European explorers called Indians in India and then started to call native Americans erroneously and out of sheer laziness.
Is there a more accurate name for Native Americans than "Native Americans"?
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native americans identify by the tribe, cacs identify them as: indians,redskins
mongoloid,and some other fukked up names
I agree with all except Native American. Do they really want to be referred under the naming convention of some cac named Amerigo Vespucci?
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Aboriginal
the "First Nation"
Didn't know shyt about Aboriginals until I met this aboriginal lady at work her stories blew my mind. Residential schools in Canada, how North and South America used to be named Turtle Island. The relationship between the slaves and the Aboriginals...
Aboriginal and Indigenous both indicate they occupied "turtle island" from the beginning of fukking time. It's not true. Just because non monotheistic creating stories aren't threatening doesn't mean they aren't stupid or problematic.
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I dunno what native Americans called themselves but some in the Caribbean called themselves "Kalinago" & "Tiano".
Black + Kalinago mixed were called Garifunas.
Honkeys caledl em Indians because the thought they had found a western route to the "indies" old school name for Asia (India, China, etc.).
Black + Kalinago mixed were called Garifunas.
Honkeys caledl em Indians because the thought they had found a western route to the "indies" old school name for Asia (India, China, etc.).
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From what I understand Africans did not call themselves "Africans" either, and I'd bet that it's the same with Asians or Native Americans, who probably just call themselves by the name of their tribe. It's really only Europeans I think who call themselves that, it makes sense since it's the smallest continent AND the one with the most external contact (Africa to the South, Asia to the East, and Americas once they were "discovered"). So it makes sense some kind of "common identity" would develop early there, even more so that most of the continent was dominated by various empires at the same time (Romans, Christianity, later on Napoleon etc).
Now "Native Americans" have to call themselves that way because citizens of the United States has usurpated the term "Americans" from the whole damn continent, meaning other have to specify what kind of American they are ("Latin" American, "Native" American, "African" American). In french there are two terms : the widely used "américain", and the hardly-ever used "étatsunien", which is much more specific to the US ("Etats-Unis"). I think there isn't even another term than "American" in english.
Now "Native Americans" have to call themselves that way because citizens of the United States has usurpated the term "Americans" from the whole damn continent, meaning other have to specify what kind of American they are ("Latin" American, "Native" American, "African" American). In french there are two terms : the widely used "américain", and the hardly-ever used "étatsunien", which is much more specific to the US ("Etats-Unis"). I think there isn't even another term than "American" in english.
First Nation, Aboriginals, and Indigenous
in ny, i heard ''skins'' a lot