Hi Santosh, Mario, Arjun, Ricardo n Afra ! Both categories - Native Americans and American Indians are used in official U.S. government documents for classifying the various ethnic groups. Hence, I assume both are acceptable.
The "Red Indians " label is a derogatory term used by white racists just as they used "niggers" for Black Americans. They have attempted to portray in the various movies they produced in the Third World with great success-how uncivilized the American Indians were. Hence, the dire need to immigrate into the country and bring about change. Since the American Indians inhabited the American continent before the first White man in Christopher Columbus "discovered" the "New Lands"- or invaded as some of my fellow writers would say- I prefer to differentiate them from the other immigrants by calling them indigenous Americans. rgds. Tony Barros. Union, New Jersey. USA. __________________________________ Discover Yahoo! Use Yahoo! to plan a weekend, have fun online and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/