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Originally Posted by Vulcan
and natives don't like being called Redskins.
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Nobody is calling them Redskins, it just doesn't happen. Not on TV, not in the movies, not even in the most uncivilized areas of the "deep south" United States. The only time the term is ever used is in reference to the Washington team.
And you might want to reconsider using the collective term "Native Americans."
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A 1995 Census Bureau survey that asked indigenous Americans their preferences for names (the last such survey done by the bureau) found that 49 percent preferred the term Indian, 37 percent Native American, and 3.6 percent "some other name." About 5 percent expressed no preference.
Moreover, a large number of Indians actually strongly object to the term Native American for political reasons. In his 1998 essay "I Am An American Indian, Not a Native American!", Russell Means, a Lakota activist and a founder of the American Indian Movement (AIM), stated unequivocally, "I abhor the term 'Native American.'" He continues:
It is a generic government term used to describe all the indigenous prisoners of the United States. These are the American Samoans, the Micronesians, the Aleuts, the original Hawaiians, and the erroneously termed Eskimos, who are actually Upiks and Inupiaqs. And, of course, the American Indian.
I prefer the term American Indian because I know its origins
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/fts...200504A16.html