What do you think of this? I was recently told that I have no right calling the "American Indians"?

and who is this spokesperson for all native people? and i've been native my entire life...did i miss the vote on what we are to be called?? concensus huh. nope...that email must have gone into my spam folder.

the government calls us american indians or jsut indians. other people call us native americans, usually followed by some lame rant by a thin skinned about how "everyone born here is a native american" and that is usually followed by someone else with a 5th grade education stating how "even so called native americans are immigrants from asia (or siberia)". of course the fact that dna has proven we didn't come from asia or siberia. doesn't enter into their minds. that email must have gone into THEIR spam folder.

and the ONLY people i have seen get all bent out of shape about what we indigenous people should be called...are themselves not indigenous! i've sat there and watched groups of white people almost come to blows over whether we should be called indians or native americans or american indians...its insane!

personally i prefer to be called love goddess but so far it hasn't stuck.

ok on a serious note. we have nations and they are older than america by thousands of years. so call us what we are..mohawk, pima, miwok, apache, lakota, anishnaibae. i'm fine with the english version of my nation, mohawk, since i've yet to meet someone outside our nation who can pronounce kanien:kaha'ka well. if you don't know simply ask "what NATION are you from?" we are happy to answer. if you need to speak about us in general indigenous works or natives or in canada first nations.

but trust me...we know when we are being insutled. its not so much what is said by how it is said. i've been called a red indian in london but i was not insulted. the person was not trying to insult me and that was obvious. but someone else could call me indian and be looking for a bruising! its all in the intent.

To be honest I wouldn't know what else to call them. I lived in Canada for 10 yrs and there the native people were Inuit Indians....I think!

I personally am Welsh. We are called Celts.

Neither is accurate.

The word Welsh means foreigner and was given to us by the invading Anglo Saxons 1500 years ago.

We are called Cymru (pronounced Cumrie).

As far as being Celtic, it is thought we descended from the Ancient Britain's that predated the arrival of the Celts. The language is quite different to Irish or Scottish Celt, yet there are people native to Turkey who speak a similar language to my people.

I was born in Loughor which is also spelt Llwchwr in Cymru.

So, the native peoples of America are one of many people whose true identities have been over ridden by invaders to their land.

Your professor is so fed on in being PC, that he is afraid to listen to the phrase black. I choose to name African Americans black. At a few factor in time, many black folks proposal that black sounded dangerous in order that they began calling themselves 'Afro-Americans.' Then they modified the identify to African-Americans. I am establishing to suppose that the label 'black' manner something that black folks do this so much white folks do not do. We relatively don't have separate black song stations and tv stations as this reinforces the well-known segragation of our society.

I was with you until that last paragraph...now I'm just lost.

But anywho, I wish people would just stop being so anal.

If they look at their history, they come from Siberia! They should be called Siberian Americans.

according to my english teacher ingenious people is the correct term

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