Neat Map of American Indians

Safiel · 2018-10-09T22:56:46.334Z

reflechissez:

gwhit:

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.

He’s showing his age and/or his cluelessness.

en.wikipedia.org

Indian

Indian or Indians may refer to:

Not really.

The term was applied in error, but it has stuck, like it or not.

By custom, it is not incorrect to refer to a Native American as an Indian.

The federal government uses the term officially and in statute.

It is not an insulting or degrading term nor is it meant to be.

Just a term that resulted from a long ago error by the early explorers who thought they had reached India.

I personally use both Indian and Native American as I feel appropriate to the situation.

If people want to use Native American exclusively, that is fine also.

reflechissez · 2018-10-09T22:59:29.729Z

Safiel:

It is not an insulting or degrading term nor is it meant to be.

I don’t get to decide that.

BillBrown · 2018-10-09T23:00:44.553Z

reflechissez:

Safiel:

It is not an insulting or degrading term nor is it meant to be.

I don’t get to decide that.

The rest of us do.

reflechissez · 2018-10-09T23:01:19.913Z

BillBrown:

reflechissez:

Safiel:

It is not an insulting or degrading term nor is it meant to be.

I don’t get to decide that.

The rest of us do.

Whatever, dude.

Safiel · 2018-10-09T23:01:42.011Z

reflechissez:

Safiel:

It is not an insulting or degrading term nor is it meant to be.

I don’t get to decide that.

Nor do I.

Society as a whole decides these things and there has never been any serious movement to decide this term is insulting.

TheRedComet · 2018-10-09T23:51:46.152Z

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.

Cynic · 2018-10-10T00:14:39.139Z

This website is incredibly depressing; the title, and discussion, only compounds it…

Hey let’s look at civilizations that were wiped out and then argue about the names we call them! NEAT!

BillBrown · 2018-10-10T00:35:40.563Z

Cynic:

This website is incredibly depressing; the title, and discussion, only compounds it…

Hey let’s look at civilizations that were wiped out and then argue about the names we call them! NEAT!

https://community.hannity.com is depressing? Why do you come here?

Cynic · 2018-10-10T00:38:53.365Z

I was referring to the one you linked, obviously; while contrived ignorance does not make you clever, the answers are yes and I don’t know.

BillBrown · 2018-10-10T00:48:40.178Z

Cynic:

I was referring to the one you linked, obviously; while contrived ignorance does not make you clever, the answers are yes and I don’t know.

Just drink a pot of black coffee. You’ll be ok in the morning.

Cynic · 2018-10-10T00:49:12.917Z

I like cream and sugar.

WildRose · 2018-10-10T05:59:58.449Z

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.

WildRose · 2018-10-10T06:01:18.182Z

Cynic:

This website is incredibly depressing; the title, and discussion, only compounds it…

Hey let’s look at civilizations that were wiped out and then argue about the names we call them! NEAT!

History class must have been awfully traumatic for you. The history of man is the history of conquest and the rise and fall of civilizations.

Airyaman · 2018-10-10T11:41:18.158Z

Born: Mohican

Raised: Moscogee (Creek), Chickasaw

BillBrown · 2018-10-10T11:47:51.837Z

Airyaman:

Born: Mohican

Raised: Moscogee (Creek), Chickasaw

I won’t ask exact locations, but isn’t Mohican in upper NY state?

Airyaman · 2018-10-10T12:49:32.725Z

BillBrown:

Airyaman:

Born: Mohican

Raised: Moscogee (Creek), Chickasaw

I won’t ask exact locations, but isn’t Mohican in upper NY state?

Don’t have the map open anymore, but the area was eastern NY, close to MA.

Grimalken · 2018-10-10T13:50:55.638Z

Cynic:

This website is incredibly depressing; the title, and discussion, only compounds it…

Hey let’s look at civilizations that were wiped out and then argue about the names we call them! NEAT!

After losing the war, the British handed over all lands to the Americans, with the Peace of Paris in 1783. The British dishonored themselves when they did this, because they did so regardless of the fact the much of that land was not theirs to give, according to its treaties with native tribes.

Grimalken · 2018-10-10T14:02:57.190Z

I’m not trying to pry. But I’m guessing you’re blood must be much more than an eight. Most people who have an eighth of sixteenth of native American blood don’t even know it, or if they do, they were not raised that way.

If any of us have family roots here in the US, that can be traced back 200 years or so, we just might find out that we are decedents of our native Americans. It might change some peoples perspectives if they have a bond to our land which goes that deep.

Airyaman · 2018-10-10T14:11:34.371Z

I have no NA blood in me. I was simply going by the geographical locations listed when using the map at the link. Born in NY, moved to AL at age of 10.

BillBrown · 2018-10-10T14:16:47.186Z

Grimalken:

I’m not trying to pry. But I’m guessing you’re blood must be much more than an eight. Most people who have an eighth of sixteenth of native American blood don’t even know it, or if they do, they were not raised that way.

If any of us have family roots here in the US, that can be traced back 200 years or so, we just might find out that we are decedents of our native Americans. It might change some peoples perspectives if they have a bond to our land which goes that deep.

An Ancestry DNA report showed me with 4% Cherokee blood. Hardly enough to matter.
I had never heard that and am not sure it’s true.