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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Following on what Don Lance said (below), some
usage issues:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1. Aside from the shift to "indigenous
people(s)" by the US Board on Geog Names, is this usage in other people's
active vocab?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2. Is it the case (it is often said to be, without
much evidence), that many (clearly not all) Native American/American Indian
groups, or individuals, are proud of the term "Indian" (despite its
etymology) and prefer it in reference to themselves? Can any NA-AI
groups or individuals weigh in on this?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>3. My understanding is that Canadian usage has
"First People(s)" for the same groups.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>4. Most attempts to come up with "appropriate"
terminology in the case of NA-AI groups will ultimately be disputable on some
grounds, by etymological sticklers, at least. Many (if not all?) of
these groups are not truly indigenous, having migrated to the Americas from
Asia. So, as with "Indian" and "native", "indigenous" does
not truly apply either. The "First Peoples" seems to work, though, since
even in the case of migration, these peoples were the first humans to inhabit
the Americas, as far as we know.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>5. Would that we could know the majority preference
of these peoples, and make that a general preference.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Frank Abate</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>DMLance said:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>The US
Geological Survey / US Board on Geographic Names is in the process of shifting
from<BR>"American Indian" and/ or "Native American" to "indigenous
people(s)." There is a PC<BR>element in the switch, since "Native
American" can mean whites who were born here, and<BR>"Indian" is definitely unPC
and is now avoided. Similarly, "First Canadians" implies that<BR>Canada
existed before the British came to North America. I think there's a
similar<BR>tendency there. The fact that almost all of those Indian groups
in Oklahoma were not<BR>indigenous to that part of North America merely adds a
messy technicality, I suppose. I<BR>think Salikoko Mufwene began this line
of discussion, so, yes, I'd say you've noticed a<BR>current trend, however much
or little clarity or accuracy there is in the choice of term.<BR>Since PCness is
involved, I suppose the term 'lexical diffusion' is too bland a term for<BR>what
is going on with references to indigenousness, and it usually refers to
geographical<BR>diffusion rather than to whatever domain we're dealing with in
this case. Am I implying<BR>that PCness infects dialectologists too?
Heaven forbid!!<BR>DMLance<<<BR><BR>Anna Fellegy wrote:<BR><BR>> In my
region, northern Minnesota, "indigenous" sometimes refers to<BR>> Native
Americans (popularly used by the Native band called "Indigenous")<BR>> or to
native peoples of other regions (Maori, aborigine, native<BR>>
Hawaiian).<BR>><BR>> Anna Fellegy</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Frank Abate</FONT></DIV>
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