Saturday, December 8, 2012

Indian/Native American: Common Errors in English Usage Entry for Saturday, December 8, 2012

Indian/Native American
Although academics have long promoted “Native American” as a more accurate label than “Indian,” most of the people so labeled continue to refer to themselves as “Indians” and prefer that term. In Canada, there is a move to refer to descendants of the original inhabitants as “First Nations” or “First Peoples,” but so far that has not spread to the US.

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