Comment on "Indian American" and "American Indian" are terms that will probably gonna confuse a lot of people.

schwim@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s complicated. Best practice is to ask for individual preference or use the specific tribe

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• otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This video dives into this topic particularly well. It’s still best to ask their individual preference, but this gave me some perspective I didn’t have before: youtu.be/kh88fVP2FWQ

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Funny how he mentioned a “In this series, we’ll use this term”… then…

    a few decades later

    Where is the series on Native Americans American Indians?

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    • otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That was also like half the YouTube comments lol. I noticed it too.

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  • Agrivar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Huh, TIL! Thanks for sharing the link - I love CGP but somehow never saw that particular video.

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• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Indian_Affairs

  It’s not called the Bureau of Native American Affairs

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  • schwim@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s also not called the Bureau of American Indian Affairs.

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Now do NAACP and UNCF.

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  • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It should be.

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