Technically little bear is a NATIVE AMERICAN, not an indian
it should be called NATIVE AMERICAN in a cupboard.
What is an indian? SOMEONE FROM INDIA
Patrick, Omri's friend = a true indian
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"It puts the lotion on the skin or else it gets the hose again."
kinda ironic huh? But it was based on a book. Book had the title "Indian in the Cupboard" and it was written before political correctness was really an issue.
shareYeah I hate when people call us Indians...Patrick was a little annoying.
If it sounds like a cuss word, use it as a cuss word.share
Your right, it should be Engine in the Cupboard.
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Hail to the King, baby.
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Your right, it should be Engine in the Cupboard.
Actually if you are really going to get into it, it should be Sioux, Iriquois, Chippewa... or whatever nation the person was from. I have no "Indian" blood in me but I was born in America and that makes me a Native American.
shareThis is a very very common misconception. They are Indians. Christopher Columbus did not call them indians because he thought they were from india. He called them "Gods people". The word in his language for "God's people" sounds very similar to the word indian that we use today. It's just that the pronuctiation we use now has changed a little after all this time. So yes, WE ARE INDIANS. As for you saying that the "correct" term is "native AMERICAN" is highley offensive and frankly kind of stupid. How is it that taking the name from wich our conquer's gave us (American) supposed to be the correct term? That makes absolutley no sense. The word American has no relation whatsoever to indian culture. Therefore "Native American" is udderly ridiculous
http://theunfunnytruth.ytmnd.com/
Some of us call ourself Indian just when we are too lazy to say Native American. Besides, there wasnt even an America back when the Indians were native. The ones I know are not as worried about the native american/indian thing as people make it seem. But I dont know how they think on the reservations. Non Natives should watch what they call them though. Outsiders and all.
shareTechnically little bear is a NATIVE AMERICAN, not an indian
it should be called NATIVE AMERICAN in a cupboard.
What is an indian? SOMEONE FROM INDIA
Patrick, Omri's friend = a true indian
NO WE ARE INDIAN. When it comes to them calling their selves indians, us natives laugh and joke because WE are indian. We are true indians. Native American or NDN, thats OUR name.
*Oh, yes, there will be blood.*
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i was never taught to call indians, native americans, we just simply knew them as indians.
shareI believe the term is Aboriginal,but every tribe I know of just refer to them selves as "The People"( Unless you are refering to The Comanches and the term other tribes used is Tshaoh meaning those who want to fight me all the time
and being that my ex husband is 3/8th Comanche,I tend to agree.....(G)
I am adopted so I do not know if I carry any true blood.My adopted mom carried a lot of Cherokee blood.(My grandmother left the reservation when she married)and my adopted dad's brother and my cousins are card carrying Cherokees.Everyone tells me that since they adopted me I can legally claim to be at least 1/4 Cherokee,but since I am adopted,I feel like I'd be flying under false colours.I have the utmost respect and love for The People and would feel honoured to be counted as a member.
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I found hard proof that he definitely did not mean to say "God's People."
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mgenteindios.html
"Third, let's look at what Columbus actually said. The admiral wrote a letter, in Spanish, detailing his discoveries while off the Azores during his homeward voyage. He forwarded this to the royal court, then at Barcelona, shortly after his storm-driven arrival in Lisbon on March 4, 1493. The original manuscript has not survived, but a printed copy made shortly after its receipt has. In the first paragraph Columbus says "In 33 days I passed from the Canary Islands to the Indies" (en 33 días pasé de las islas de Canaria a las Indias). His first reference to the inhabitants comes in the second paragraph: "To the first [island] which I found I gave the name San Salvador . . . the Indians call it Guanahaní" (A la primera que yo hallé puse nombre San Salvador . . . los Indios la llaman Guanahaní). In all he makes six references to India or the Indies, and four to Indios. Nowhere in the letter does he use a phrase resembling una gente in Dios. He says little of the spiritual beliefs of the people--at one point he states, "These people practice no kind of idolatry; on the contrary they firmly believe that all strength and power, and in fact all good things are in heaven, and that I had come down from thence with these ships and sailors;" at another he says "they are very ready and favorably inclined" to be converted to Christianity--but that's about it. "
Yep. Columbus thought he was in India. If you read the rest of that website above you'll see some other colorfully interesting things about Columbus. He was really looking for Japan.
All these documents state that the term indian came from the fact that Columbus was an as*hat imperialist who couldn't tell the difference between a First Nations and an East Indian. I guess it's just a matter of just reading Columbus's logs and finding out what he called them.
I can honestly say though that I have a lot of Native blood and several times a week i'm confused for being East Indian by whites, blacks, asians, and east indians alike. I get free extras in East Indian restaurants and the desi/punjabi/bengali/ southern Pakistani community at my school think i'm some sort of confused denying self hating asian for not joining their clubs.
Sometimes I just play along because i'm just too resigned to it now- especially since most Natives look white and have Caucasian blood where I'm from and therefore most people around here think Natives are white-ish (nothing wrong with that, but it's true)..
The same individuals that smugly state that Columbus was ignorant for mistaking East Indians for other people do it ALL the time to me. I'm not so sure it's as dumb these days as it might just be their way of trying to be multicultural and open minded instead of those days when such a thing became evil and imperialistic.
But should First Nations be called Indians? I am not one to say because I do not belong to that ethnic group.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_name_controversy