There weren't any humans here before colonization.
The migration from southeast asia over the bearing strait during the ice age, is still a colonization in the same sense that people from Europe crossing the Atlantic Ocean is.
But for the tribes you are talking about, I don't call them Indian, because that term stems from european colonists getting lost af while trying to sail to India to trade with actual Indians.
I usually just call people by their name tbh, but Native American as a term at least makes some sense, since, for anyone born here, thats the case.
Native is the go to. You can narrow it down to smaller groups like athabaskan, Eskimo, aleut another dozen others. Even better if you know the individual village. If you don't know just go for native.
Indian isn't derogatory, just outdated and not used in official documents in our modern day. Officially native reservations and Alaskan native corporations are also sudo sovereign nations within the United States. That's why Indians is not official for natives because Indians should be recognized people from India.
Native American. I feel like it’s wrong to use the word “Indian” to describe them. That only came about because Christopher Columbus thought he was in India when he arrived here. I see no reason to continue using that term now that everyone knows this isn’t India.
Most folks who are Indigenous would probably just call those folks Indigenous. But the because the only reason why we would try to refer to them at one big group is because of our need to racially classify folks.
Most folks who are descendant of those groups don't think of themselves as some huge racial grouping. . . unless they are uniting over some political issue, etc.
As a Brit who has limited interaction, I tend to fall back on the ‘what do you prefer being called’
Also I hate having to prefix stuff with America etc, as obviously only America has any indigenous peoples, oh yeah Canada and then likes of Alaskan Inuit etc.
I hold my hand up as having simply asked ‘look what do we say without accidentally offending anyone’
I personally don’t like the use of the word Indians, as it’s just because some Italian did not know where he was.
I'm now using the term 'Native Americans', although I liked the term 'Indians', just because it's shorter. I know, 'Indians' is a stupid identifier from centuries ago, because they're not really Indians.
In the United States, we say "Native Americans" although, when I was a kid, we'd say "American Indian" or, really, just "Indian" as in Cleveland Indians.
I usually refer to them by the name of their tribe if I know which one they're from, or just say Indian. I don't like calling them Indians because they're not from India
Native American crossed the land bridge from Russia eons ago they are i think are the first of the modern human. All was fine till Europeans came and it has been hell ever since.
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