Why so many of my people, the American Indigenous people in this country, have been and will continue to be so upset with the use of the word Indian is that we are not from India.
By using today's thinking about the use of the word Indians to describe the Indigenous people of this country, one would have to say that if not for the wisdom and tenacity of Mahatma Gaudi the people of India would today be speaking British?
If not for the Allies, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President, Charles de Gaulle, the England and France people would be speaking German and so on throughout history.
The Indigenous American Natives are not speaking Hindi, or Islamic.
Also it must be noted that India never conquered this country, at least not yet?
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