Timeline for Usage of "East Indian" to distinguish from "Native American"
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| May 6, 2018 at 4:28 | comment | added | Lynn | @Zebrafish - "A 1995 Census Bureau survey that asked indigenous Americans their preferences for names ... found that 49 percent preferred the term Indian, 37 percent Native American..." Source. But despite that preference, a great many people will still see using "Indian" as being culturally insensitive. Schoolkids are taught to avoid it. And there's some evidence that the greatest preference is to be referred to by a specific tribe over both of those terms. | |
| May 6, 2018 at 2:13 | comment | added | Michael Lorton | @Zebrafish -- in San Francisco, people understand the term "American Indian"; and it is my understand that the term preferred by actual American Indians throughout the continent is "American Indian". If that's different among American Indians here in SF, I wouldn't know. | |
| May 2, 2018 at 13:14 | comment | added | Zebrafish | @Malvolio Are you saying that in San Fran people descended from Native Americans prefer the term "American Indian"? | |
| May 2, 2018 at 13:13 | comment | added | Zebrafish | @JSBձոգչ Does that mean that using "American Indian" is still acceptable and not offensive? At least in some parts of America? | |
| Jan 5, 2012 at 21:14 | comment | added | Lynn | See additional edit for some clarification. | |
| Jan 5, 2012 at 21:13 | history | edited | Lynn | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added more info about regional variances
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| Jan 5, 2012 at 20:54 | comment | added | Michael Lorton | I don't know where Lynn lives but even here in ultra-PC San Francisco, "Indian" is at best ambiguous. It's also my understanding that it is the term preferred by people actually descended from the pre-Columbian tribes of North America. (Ditto, mutis mutandis, for "black" vs. "African American".) | |
| Nov 28, 2011 at 22:10 | comment | added | thursdaysgeek | In eastern Washington state, Indian often means Native American, but it can be confusing. I've often said "India Indian", "<name> from India", or "East Indian" to distinguish them from a local Yakama, Nez Perce, or other Native American. | |
| Nov 28, 2011 at 14:20 | comment | added | JSBձոգչ | You're right that this is a regional thing. My parents live in Colorado, where there are very few people from India and quite a few Native Americans, and they use the word Indian almost exclusively for Native Americans. I used the word that way, too, until I moved to Seattle where the Indian population is very large. The growing number and prominence of Indians in America means that the "person from India" sense is becoming more common throughout the country, but there are plenty of places left where "Native American" is still the primary sense of the word. | |
| Nov 28, 2011 at 4:21 | vote | accept | rob | ||
| Nov 27, 2011 at 6:28 | history | answered | Lynn | CC BY-SA 3.0 |