Title: What do Native Americans want to be called by others? - Quora
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What do Native Americans want to be called by others?
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Content: that guy John, the Lakota man, the dude from the rez, the gentleman who lives in Pine Ridge...or if you want to be super technical..."Remember, the Oglala Lakota man named John, who wore a striped, blue shirt, on the Pine Ridge Reservation? Yeah, he's awesome!"). Alex Jacobs
, Researcher, free-lance writer, Native American history. Answered 5 years ago · Author has 106 answers and 118.2K answer views
American Indian is still popular because Native American now carries political overtones, that anyone born in the USA (or "America") sometimes refer to themselves as "Native American" and on the US Census and other polls, which can skew results. Still, among younger generations it's probably more popular BUT the term "Indigenous" was gained political traction, meaning, basically, "We Were Here First", indigenous to the land, as there are indigenous peoples (Natives) to all lands around the world until Invaders, Immigrants and Colonists or Settlers took over their lands. Also we sometimes refer
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American Indian is still popular because Native American now carries political overtones, that anyone born in the USA (or "America") sometimes refer to themselves as "Native American" and on the US Census and other polls, which can skew results. Still, among younger generations it's probably more popular BUT the term "Indigenous" was gained political traction, meaning, basically, "We Were Here First", indigenous to the land, as there are indigenous peoples (Natives) to all lands around the world until Invaders, Immigrants and Colonists or Settlers took over their lands. Also we sometimes refer to them as "Aliens" since they now call all new immigrants this term, "Aliens". SKINS is a slang word used by Rez and Urban Indians, some say as in "nigga", now being replaced by NDN, NDN's or N8V, N8V's. Older generations really don't mind "Indian" because it represents our generation and we were raised with all the "indian" imagery, slang and jargon and can better relate our empowering, funny, sad or terrible stories about "being Indian".