|
 Earth Child
Registered: 12/16/10
Posts: 3,473
|
 People who still refer to Native Americans as Indians 
#15224099 - 10/14/11 11:02 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
|
|
 y u no be politically correct?
--------------------
Life is too short for this sorrow. You may be here today and gone tomorrow.
My Poetry · Stay Informed · Recipes · Nature Wants Us to Trip · Meyendhi
|
Apollyphelion
Dungeon Master/Princess(1009)
Registered: 03/15/07
Posts: 13,551
Loc: Festival of Deaths
|
Re: People who still refer to Native Americans as Indians [Re: Earth Child] 2
#15224102 - 10/14/11 11:04 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
|
|
I refer to them as Injuns.
--------------------
"I'm looking at you looking at it"
SUBSCRIBE TO MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL PLEASE! www.youtube.com/apollyphelion
"I am a woman
Inside a Man
Inside a Horse
Meow!"
Creator of the World's Worst Comic Book
|
 tymoteusz3
Registered: 09/08/10
Posts: 7,703
Last seen: 3 hours, 59 minutes
|
Re: People who still refer to Native Americans as Indians [Re: Apollyphelion]
#15224112 - 10/14/11 11:07 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
Apollyphelion said:
I refer to them as Injuns.
I was gonna say that 
|
Earth Child
Registered: 12/16/10
Posts: 3,473
|
Re: People who still refer to Native Americans as Indians [Re: Apollyphelion]
#15224113 - 10/14/11 11:07 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
|
|
That offends me.
No I'm just kidding. But really? I understand where the term stemmed from, and was appropriate in its time.. but why still today?
--------------------
Life is too short for this sorrow. You may be here today and gone tomorrow.
My Poetry · Stay Informed · Recipes · Nature Wants Us to Trip · Meyendhi
|
Nullface
Registered: 09/04/11
Posts: 4,556
Loc: USA 
Last seen: 1 hour, 11 minutes
|
Re: People who still refer to Native Americans as Indians [Re: tymoteusz3]
#15224116 - 10/14/11 11:08 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
|
|
Because they called themselves Indians? Most Americans don't even know what India is and if they do it's because they talked to one on tech support. So it doesn't matter.
|
 Salomon
living on borrowed time
Registered: 01/17/09
Posts: 20,290
Loc: I dont even care anymore
Last seen: 54 seconds
|
Re: People who still refer to Native Americans as Indians [Re: tymoteusz3]
#15224129 - 10/14/11 11:12 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
|
|
i call them red skins.
i refer to the baseball team.
|
Earth Child
Registered: 12/16/10
Posts: 3,473
|
Re: People who still refer to Native Americans as Indians [Re: Salomon]
#15224131 - 10/14/11 11:13 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
|
|
Isn't that football? 
--------------------
Life is too short for this sorrow. You may be here today and gone tomorrow.
My Poetry · Stay Informed · Recipes · Nature Wants Us to Trip · Meyendhi
|
Happy2fly
The Champ!
Registered: 05/18/09
Posts: 1,287
Loc: The land of many thousand...
Last seen: 1 day, 9 hours
|
Re: People who still refer to Native Americans as Indians [Re: Earth Child]
#15224147 - 10/14/11 11:17 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
|
|
I took an Ojibwa studies class in college and the professor, who was full blooded Ojibwa, did not like the term "Native American" but had no problem with being called an Indian. He preferred to be called Ojibwa though. It was a while ago, so my memory is a bit cloudy, but I think it had to do with the fact that Americans put them on reservations, and tried to make them assimilate into our lifestyle. He said they forced them to convert to Christianity, and took their children away to be educated in American schools. The Ojibwa language was almost completely lost a few decades ago, when only a handful of the elders still spoke it. He said the whole "political correctness" was just another assault on their culture, and calling the Ojibwa "Native Americans" insulted their heritage...
--------------------
The fire has many things to teach.
But so does the human experience.. which is like fire, sometimes you just need to stoke the coals and sometimes you just need to add a log or reposition the log matrix. But a well built fire will be much more self-sustaining than a poorly built one, and they all need love to grow. And don't fuck around or your might burn yourself. Must always respect the fire. - Shroomism
|
Equipto
Registered: 03/12/11
Posts: 1,279
Last seen: 30 days, 18 hours
|
Re: People who still refer to Native Americans as Indians [Re: Earth Child]
#15224154 - 10/14/11 11:19 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
|
|
Yeah I was gonna say, I didn't think they even like that term.
--------------------
|
Earth Child
Registered: 12/16/10
Posts: 3,473
|
Re: People who still refer to Native Americans as Indians [Re: Happy2fly]
#15224159 - 10/14/11 11:21 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
|
|
Being Native myself, I can respect that logic.
But I don't necessarily want to be called an Indian, simply because I'm not.
--------------------
Life is too short for this sorrow. You may be here today and gone tomorrow.
My Poetry · Stay Informed · Recipes · Nature Wants Us to Trip · Meyendhi
|
King Cap
Beginning Mycologist
Registered: 02/23/11
Posts: 483
Loc: South Park Colorado
Last seen: 1 year, 6 months
|
Re: People who still refer to Native Americans as Indians [Re: Earth Child]
#15224176 - 10/14/11 11:26 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
|
|
Every time I hear. "Indian" the same questions always follows, "Wait, Indian with feathers or dots?"
--------------------
"Snow is like sex. You never know how much your gonna get or how long it's gonna last"
|
Space Elf
Registered: 07/29/10
Posts: 2,293
Last seen: 4 months, 4 days
|
Re: People who still refer to Native Americans as Indians [Re: Earth Child]
#15224177 - 10/14/11 11:27 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
Psybe said:
Being Native myself, I can respect that logic.
But I don't necessarily want to be called an Indian, simply because I'm not.
You're Native American? That's awesome!  Which tribe are you a descendant of?
--------------------
|
Earth Child
Registered: 12/16/10
Posts: 3,473
|
Re: People who still refer to Native Americans as Indians [Re: Space Elf]
#15224180 - 10/14/11 11:28 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
|
|
Yavapai-Apache
--------------------
Life is too short for this sorrow. You may be here today and gone tomorrow.
My Poetry · Stay Informed · Recipes · Nature Wants Us to Trip · Meyendhi
|
Equipto
Registered: 03/12/11
Posts: 1,279
Last seen: 30 days, 18 hours
|
Re: People who still refer to Native Americans as Indians [Re: Earth Child]
#15224190 - 10/14/11 11:31 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
|
|
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember learning in school that all the "natives" marched their asses over here via the Bering Straight. So technically they aren't native anyway.
--------------------
|
Earth Child
Registered: 12/16/10
Posts: 3,473
|
Re: People who still refer to Native Americans as Indians [Re: Equipto]
#15224193 - 10/14/11 11:31 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
|
|
The 'Native' part meaning we were here before the Europeans.
--------------------
Life is too short for this sorrow. You may be here today and gone tomorrow.
My Poetry · Stay Informed · Recipes · Nature Wants Us to Trip · Meyendhi
|
nuentoter
woodsman
Registered: 09/17/08
Posts: 321
Last seen: 12 hours, 23 minutes
|
Re: People who still refer to Native Americans as Indians [Re: Space Elf]
#15224198 - 10/14/11 11:33 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
|
|
happy2fly your avatar looks like a painting from Martin W. Ball. Someone I have high respect for.
--------------------
|
Equipto
Registered: 03/12/11
Posts: 1,279
Last seen: 30 days, 18 hours
|
Re: People who still refer to Native Americans as Indians [Re: Earth Child]
#15224200 - 10/14/11 11:33 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
|
|
I've got indian blood in my family as well but I wouldn't go so far as to say "we" lol, cool you are so proud of your tribes heritage
--------------------
|
Earth Child
Registered: 12/16/10
Posts: 3,473
|
Re: People who still refer to Native Americans as Indians [Re: Equipto]
#15224205 - 10/14/11 11:34 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
|
|
Yea, I might get a little carried away with it. But I am extremely proud of it. I should go on to say that I, myself am only half blood. My mother was full on native, but my dad is an african american.
I'm adopted though, and have nothing to do with my biological parents
--------------------
Life is too short for this sorrow. You may be here today and gone tomorrow.
My Poetry · Stay Informed · Recipes · Nature Wants Us to Trip · Meyendhi
|
240779
Stranger
Registered: 12/07/10
Posts: 5,378
Loc: Long Island
Last seen: 4 hours, 43 minutes
|
Re: People who still refer to Native Americans as Indians [Re: Earth Child]
#15224214 - 10/14/11 11:36 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
|
|
ABC News is showing a documentary tonight on Native American children with less-than-adequate living conditions.
Hidden America: Children of the Plains
|
BangHead
Truth Seeker
Registered: 08/16/09
Posts: 111
Last seen: 4 months, 9 days
|
Re: People who still refer to Native Americans as Indians [Re: Earth Child] 1
#15224215 - 10/14/11 11:36 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
|
|
My sister is arapaho and I'm navajo. But get this! Yesterday I met a Chigaho and a Newyorkho!!
--------------------
all posts and statements made are completely fictional,
I greatly detest being associated with any illegal activites,
In fact, I have never done anything illegal,
I choose to learn about different substances so that in the case where I might need to interact with them, I shall know alot about them,
This is a principle in everything i do...
(Yeah, you should have pattened this... please steal it)
|
|
Images only 
Access 
Threaded
Previous
Index
Next
Reply 
