RE:RE:RE:More bs from the indianI find this discussion more amusing than anything else. I admit I find the term "Indian" a little confusing and often requiring further clarification when used, only because "real" Indians come from India, not N. America. Prejudice has nothing to do with it. It is ONLY that the term was orininally one of mistaken identity which somehow stuck over the years. If anyone feels insulted by being called "indian," they need to take up their feelings with the folks from India, or the Indies, whatever.
I find it further of interest that in Canada the preferred touchy feely term is First Nations, while south of the Great Lakes it's Native American... hummmm. When I was in college, I was proud to be called a Miami Redskin. Now they think they're Miami Red Tweety Birds, or something. I no longer claim them since they abandoned me. Anyway it's silliness. Why get offended that someone thinks it is a mark of fierceness or valor to be known as a Redskin, Vikng, Boilermaker, Dodger (originally Streetcar Dodger), Canuck, Yankee, Devil, Fighting Irish, or whatever? What's the big deal? I don't get offended if my Mexican friends call me Gringo.