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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Today, it's an insult, on par with "Paki;" the preferred terms include Native Americans, Native Peoples, or First Nations. (First Nations is common in Canada, less so in the US.)
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While I agree that the term "injun" is in today's context an insult, I have to ask you: preferred by whom? By the people they describe or by white people trying to distance themselves from the facts of history and (possibly) the deeds of their ancestors?