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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9024035" data-attributes="member: 58172">To be fair. To describe the Indigenous of the Americas as if in India, is plainly incorrect.The scholarly term shaman(ist) accurately describes the actual shamans as well.The problem is appropriation, not misinformation. The appropriation is a problem, because the unique traditions of the actual shamans get lost among the very many ethnicities that also preserve shamanistic traditions, but these other traditions are also unique and quite different from the actual shamans.I agree scholars do well to come up with an alternative technical term. If you have a proposal in mind, please share!</blockquote>