[Aztlan] Aztlan Digest, Vol 38, Issue 10

[Jaime Andres Pretell]

I use the term Native American. I am of Quechua ancestry.  I am not from 
India (in that ancestry). Just because some North American tribes call 
themselves American Indian, why should all Native groups do so?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bertram Perkel" <bperkel29 at comcast.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Aztlan] Aztlan Digest, Vol 38, Issue 10


>  It always catches my eye when the phrase "Native American Indian" is
> used by non-native americans when referring to the indigenous
> populations of the Americas. Currently, whenever these indigenous
> people have joined together to create something of their own, almost
> without exception they have called themselves "American Indians"----- 
> witness the Museum of the American Indian in washington D.C., The
> American Indian Dance Company, etc. I can only wonder why "we" non-
> indigenous persons keep calling "them," the indigenous persons by a
> name that "they", left to their own devices do not use.
> Bertram Perkel
> bperkel29 at comcast.net