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gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener) writes:
>>WHAT DOES NATIVE AMERICAN MEAN?
>>

>"Native American" is this week's PC buzzword for what you and I and 
>most of the world would call American Indian.  I don't particularly find
>it a very good term, since having been born in New York, I consider myself
>a native American even though my grandparents weren't.

I find "American Indian" to be a much worse term, as it is the term
given to them by the white-folk, and not the term by which they called
themselves or prefer to be called.  I liken the term to "nigger".

Indians live in India.  First Nations' People live in North America.
Native North American will do nicely though, or for those of you who
don't know that there *is* a part of North America outside the USA,
I guess Native American might suffice.  There are other terms as well,
but they don't come to mind right now.  But again I state, that Indians
live in India, not in North America.
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