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Originally Posted by luqmaninbmore
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?
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Preferred by most of the Native people I've met online, and several racial activism blogs. I gather there's no one absolute answer, and some no doubt prefer Indian. Some prefer specific tribal labels. From the outside, it looks a bit like the debates about the terms "Black" vs "African-American;" I try to sort out which version an individual prefers and go with that.