12th October 2015, 8:02 PM
Dark Jaguar Wrote:Kinda surprised you're calling them Indians there.
I don't know, [American] Indian vs. Native American, you see both and both seem equally accepted in the US. The fairly new Smithsonian museum is called the Museum of the American Indian, for example. Of course up in Canada they are pretty much exclusively referred to as "First Nations" I'm pretty sure, but we don't really use that term in the US... and between Indian and Native American, there are plusses and minuses to each. Indian is obviously a misnomer as these continents are not close to India, but "native" isn't the kindest term in a historical context either, yes? Or do you think that there is a best term to use?