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Thread #57796   Message #911673
Posted By: katlaughing
17-Mar-03 - 12:55 AM
Thread Name: BS: Indian or Native American?
Subject: RE: BS: Indian or Native American?
SRS, you can listen to Native American Calling, AlterNative Voices and a bunch of other all-NDN shows online at AIROS - American Indian Radio on Satellite.

We picked up a tshirt at a powwow one time. It shows some Indians on what is obviously an ocean shoreline and says Americans before Columbus. Of course, that's not what the continent was known as, but it gets the point across.

We could all do as Morris Dees suggests and does... calls people American first, then adds whatever if there is a need to identify, i.e. American of African descent, American of Irish descent, etc. I didn't ask him when we had dinner and visited, but I assume he'd say something like American of Native descent or maybe he'd use the above from the NDN tshirt: American of Before Columbus descent! (Just kidding!)

kat