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Re: indian.el
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Robert J. Chassell |
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Re: indian.el |
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Mon, 26 Nov 2001 10:37:06 -0500 (EST) |
I think `indian.el' is the wrong name. Shouldn't it be `indic.el'?
It has nothing to do with American's indians...
You have entered a hot and fiery discussion .... :-)
In the US, `Indian' is often and confusingly understood to mean either
indigenous Americans or people from southern Asia.
The confusion has occurred often enough that many people now refer to
`Red Indians' as `native Americans'. Unfortunately, this latter
expression excludes those of us who are native, but whose ancestors
came by ship from Europe. A good friend of mine prefers to refer to
herself as `indigenous', rather than as a `native American' or
`American Indian'.
Incidentally, she has reminded me that the word `America' comes from
the name of a European explorer.
At the 500th anniversary of Colombus voyage to the `new world',
various indigenous people sold T-shirts with the statement on it:
1491: the last good year
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