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moof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-17-04 04:03 AM
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11. never liked the term " Indians "
Native American also seems to deny the proper respect.
Short of saying " the descendents of the American genocide ",
Human Being seems best unless you know the ancestry of the
person or persons being refered to.

Not to take anything away from anyone's heritage but what is the use of a term like "native american" when it is so vague and misleading.

Just right off there are American North American natives,
Canadian North American natives, Mexcian North American Natives,
and what about he native people that do not recognize any of the
illegitimate artificial boundries that rationalize these divisions.

It is all very fustrating and it must be quite a bitter thing for any " Native " people to have to put up with.

Also why didn't Clinton pardon Leonard Peltier and why not give the black hills ?

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/jan2001/pelt-j25.shtml

http://www.bluecloud.org/bighorn-4.html
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