https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=521658

--- Comment #3 from [email protected] ---
(In reply to animtim from comment #2)
> I agree that the term "les Indiens" is not appropriate, though the best term
> to use is not obvious. I found this page on wikipedia discussing the
> terminology issue:
> https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%A9rindien_(cat%C3%A9gorisation_ethnique)
> 
> So I would agree to change it to "les peuples autochtones", or maybe even
> better use the Canadian term "les Premières Nations".
> 
> About the suggested additional sentence, I agree it would be good to add
> something like this to clarify why they are now almost extinct... I propose:
> "However, their near-extinction is due to the fact that the colonizers
> massacred them for sport and to clear land, rather than to hunting by
> indigenous peoples."

Some references from the Quebec language office:
https://vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/fiche-gdt/fiche/26532634/premieres-nations
"Dans l'usage général actuel, cependant, cette désignation est souvent jugée
péjorative."
https://vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/25335/la-typographie/majuscules/emploi-de-la-majuscule-pour-des-types-de-denominations/designations-de-peuples-autochtones

In Canadian context Première Nations specifically excludes Métis and Inuit
people (not that the Inuit hunted bison..), and it's a very Canadian term.  The
most inclusive term which would include US American Indians (who have reclaimed
the term) would indeed be "peuples autochtones".

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