[stignasty]

When I was doing my master's I wrote a paper about the attempts to protect and revitalize First Nations languages. I had little luck finding articles about "First Nations," "Aboriginal," "Native American," or "Indigenous" languages. I had much more success when I searched the academic journals using "American Indian."

That being said, I work on a reserve with native people every day. I don't use the term "Indian," but that's how they refer to themselves more often than not. Maybe we could just call it the "I word."