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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dungeonosophy" data-source="post: 8488858" data-attributes="member: 6688049">“I hate the word ‘Native American.’ It’s a government term, which was createdin the year 1970 in the Department of the Interior, a generic term that describesall the prisoners of the United States of America. Those of us who are forced tolive on trust territories, the Micronesians, the original Hawaiians, the Aleuts, theInupiats, the Yupiks, who are erroneously called Eskimos, and all of the 500nations of the American Indians are so-called ‘Native Americans.’ I refuse to bedefined by a government, any government; so I am an Indian. Because I knowwhere that came from, a bastardization of two Spanish words: In Dios, ‘in withgod.’ And Columbus wrote la gente indio, ‘a people in with God;’ so I much preferto be called Indian rather than Native American.”—Russell Means, Lakota Nation, “<a href="http://“The Existential Indian”" target="_blank">The Existential Indian</a>”“I even hesitate to use the term "Native American," since it implies that we are Native citizensof a colonialist power that conquered and divided the original nations in this continent (noneof whom were "American").”—Marge Bruchac, Abenaki Nation"Native American [...] is a term used by guilt-ridden white people." —Sherman Alexi, Spokane and Coeur d'Alene Indian</blockquote>