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From: kumar@hplabsc.UUCP (Arvind Kumar)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.india
Subject: Native Americans
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Date: Fri, 12-Apr-85 19:14:15 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 12 19:14:15 1985
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I have a question to ask of American-born people:
 
What is the preferred term for addressing the native Americans
in the US?  I am referring to people who have previously been
called Red Indians.  It seems to me that just as the term Negro
is no longer in favor, neither is Red Indian, since the term
describes (supposedly) skin color and a mistaken indentity
(I'm told Columbus was looking for India).

Now that both America and India have been discovered, and people
of both are getting to know each other, it is time that we address
each other properly.
~e