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To: Lane3 who wrote (133214)	8/22/2005 7:32:22 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 793781

" By the way, it is now politically correct to say "Indian" instead of "Native American." " I wonder how and when that came to pass. I wish we had a better term. They weren't born in India, and I'm a native American, I was born in this country... On occasion I've heard the term "Amerindian" combining both and not really having the weakness of either. But it never really took off. If the Indians/Native Americans were one big group with one name of themselves in their original languages we could use that but of course they where hundreds, maybe even thousands of clans, tribes and confederations spread out across a continent. So while we could call an individual by his tribes name (if we happen to know it) and say "He's an Apache" or whatever, it wouldn't help for the entire group. Tim