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Originally Posted by tpunx99GSX

Saying native indians, or native americans? Because they are both wrong. Calling Native people Indians implies you are using Christopher Columbus' name for a people that he thought were from India, but was actually mistaken because they were on the soil we now call North America.
But then if you call them Native Americans you are implying that the country was named America before they got here, which is also not true.
You could call them by the Nation of their people (Ojibwa, Souix, Yaki, Apache etc.) But if you choose to group them all in one big pot, Native People would be the correct term.

Tom, my wife is Native American, and so is her dad's entire side of the family. We go to pow-wow's a few times a year and all that shit. Native American and American Indian are both accepted names for their race. kthxbye.