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From: harper@oravax.UUCP (Doug Harper)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Native Americans
Message-ID: <474@oravax.UUCP>
Date: 17 Sep 88 00:53:26 GMT
Organization: Odyssey Research Ass., Ithaca NY
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In article <242@wucs1.wustl.edu> jps@wucs1.UUCP (James Sterbenz) writes:
>Even in the U.S. "native americans" [sic] (yes, "indians" [sic] 
>are the REAL native >americans) have non-standard forms.

It is beyond dispute that "American Indian" and its derivative
"Amerindian" are bad names based on mistaken geography.  A better name
should be in use, but "native American" is not it.  Anyone native to
either American continent qualifies as a native American: it is
parochial and exclusionary to think otherwise.  It is downright rude to
tell us that we are not REAL native Americans.  I believe that a
retraction is in order.

Mr. Sterbenz?

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