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In article <1992Aug4.140617.10961@dragon.acadiau.ca> alan@dragon.acadiau.ca (Alan McKay) writes:
|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.

Well, since I was born in North America, I am most certainly a native
American, but I am of purely European ancestry.  So the term you propose
is not adequate.  It has the wrong meaning - it means someone born in
America.  You need a word for 'someone of American aboriginal ancestry'.
So, what are these other terms you mention?
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