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Originally Posted by Matt D.
So that means if he was speaking about native indians here in the US then saying Americans would be proper?
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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.
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