American Indians? How in today’s world some people still don’t know that American was not the Country of India like some idiot from 1490s thought. Look at a map and see where India actually is and the natives living here, we are not Indian’s as our ancestors come from here.
It’s inaccurate but it has been the commonly used term since the 1500s. Sort of hard to change lingo that has been in use that long.
It’s not impossible, though. Black Americans were called Negroes for two centuries. The term didn’t fall out of common use until the late 1970s. So maybe it’ll change.
Grew up in the land of the Mescalero and presently live in what was the land of the Comanche.
One of the biggest battles with the Commanche’s was fought about 30 miles from here and another about sixty.
Commanches used to raid through this area regularly and raised a whole lot of hell with the settlers and the Cavalry from Ft. Sill, to Ft. Griffin, to Ft Graham, and Fort Belknap. In one raid a town just to our south was nearly completely wiped out.