I thought we didn’t say Indian anymore?
They decided to keep the name “Indian” because when white people decided to start calling them “native Americans”. They decided that they weren’t going to let white people dictate what their name was a second time.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs still exists.
Some prefer Native American others prefer Indian. Most seem to prefer referring to their specific tribe if you aren’t speaking about all Indian tribes. The import part is to use neither as a negative term.
was Abya Yala the noncolonial name of the continent?
Nothing in Hawaii? I thought there was an entire island that only allows tribals
Edit: Wikipedia article had a lot more recent history than I remember noticing - Bill Clinton signed an apology for overthrowing the Kingdom. It looks like they needed self-governance to be a tribe but that was blocked by Supreme Court as racist - I may be misunderstanding
Damn. My state has the second most and I still never see any Native American people outside of TV. I’ve been to 3 of their casinos, too!
