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[dolorouschilde]

I'm in the process of rereading The Patriot Chiefs, making notes on pronunciation (Which is AMAZINGLY difficult to find, what the fuck, there has to be some resource out there I'm not familiar with that tells me how to pronounce all these American Indian names and place-names. I gotta ask Kenji if he knows of anything). I'm also going to be

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[hajenso]

I don't know anything about how to pronounce American Indian names, sorry. If you can find something in IPA, I can help you with reading that, but that's about it.

Before going around changing every instance of "Native American" on wikipedia, I would check into their policy on that question. I'm pretty sure it has already been argued to death and a policy decided.

} kenji

[dolorouschilde]

It has indeed been argued to death and decided already, I'm just being whimsical :(

Though I'll be damned if I put "Native American" in any original articles. :p

[bibble]

i do love you for your whimsy

[absentmammoth]

dave, you rock my socks hardcore. xoxoxoxoxoxo. history is what i'm leaning towards going back to school for myself.

and i agree, American Indian history is some of the most painful. that's also why it's probably the most buried in our country.

[amp23]

i'm confused. i thought native american was the proper term since indian was only used because Columbus was looking for India and thought he reached it.

i like the terminology in canada better, where they simply use natives or first nations to refer to the indigenous population.

[dolorouschilde]

Native American is a very general term that refers to any of the indigenous people in north and south america. American Indian refers to members of the ethnic group that is made up by Native Americans from the contiguous US, and northern mexico as well as the southern part of canada. It's also the term preferred by those tribes, at least many of the ones in the US.

Additionally, Native American has some pretty strong context issues that arise from the government's invention and use of that term.

In the end I'm sure there are plenty of people who prefer Native American to American Indian, but it seems from the looking into it that I've done that those people who tend to be the best informed and care the most prefer American Indian, so that's what I use.

[dolorouschilde]

Also, I am a fan of the canadian terminology as well.

[dewayne_mann]

no man, i heard somewhere that "indigenous americans" and "American indigenous people" are now the prefered nomenclature. all of the other terms make the baby sky-jesus cry. and you don't want that to happen, do you?

[dolorouschilde]

u m8k me lol

[dewayne_mann]

that's what I'm here for.

also, according to amazon, the first sentence of this book has a typo. impressive.

however, their "look inside the book" feature contradicts this claim.

[dragersid]

Are you reading Henderson the Rain King yet?

I garuntee you love it.

If you do not, you will recieve twenty of my dollars.