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Originally Posted by peter12
The term aboriginal in my mind is absolutely not a culturally accepted term. It's meaning, basically "of origin", denotes cultural absolutism among the 100s of bands across this country.
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Too true. I took a few History classes that dealt with this issue. I hated the term Aboriginal, but they beat it in to us that it was the accepted term. Personally, I prefer the loose generalization of "Native American", but when referring to actual people, what's wrong with calling them by their actual culture? Like Crow, Iroquois, Blackfoot... etc.