12th October 2015, 8:09 PM
I'd heard all my life that "Native American" was the polite thing to say and that calling one an "indian" is pretty offensive. "Native" has some negative associations, but I've yet to hear any native Americans complain about being called... native Americans... Well, except maybe the "Americans" part, considering it was a bunch of weirdos from Europe that suddenly decided that's what both of these continents were now called.
All that said, I'm from Oklahoma, and lots of people here (myself included, I think I heard one time) have native ancestry if you go back enough. Also, Oklahomans tend to be a bit more sensitive in general on this topic than most Americans, I've found, but that's probably just due to how big a part of Oklahoma history it is, and how recent.
All that said, I'm from Oklahoma, and lots of people here (myself included, I think I heard one time) have native ancestry if you go back enough. Also, Oklahomans tend to be a bit more sensitive in general on this topic than most Americans, I've found, but that's probably just due to how big a part of Oklahoma history it is, and how recent.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)