Biz Ag said:
I was having my hearing checked when I was a kid. Doc used some kind of nasal spray to clear out my sinuses.
I said it stinks.
He said, no it smells.
I relayed this to my Dad who told me, "the next time tell him it stinks and that he smells."
CDUB98 said:I chortled.TyHolden said:
Christopher Columbus went searching for India.
Finds America.
Meets Indians.
He's like....
Towns03 said:
My kid was marked incorrect on a test answer this week. Her answer, "Indians", was marked incorrect and the teacher wrote in "Native Americans" in red pen to offer the correct response as feedback.
My question is what's the difference??
I understand that some claim the term 'indians' is offensive, but using the same logic shouldn't 'native americans' be offensive too? Where did the name 'America' come from? -An italian explorer. And 'native is an English word.
Is this just stupidity dressed as wokeness? Should I get another dog? Is there another take on this? What good can come from an email to the teacher? I hate to think what kind of indoctrination is going on...
TyHolden said:
Christopher Columbus went searching for India.
Finds America.
Meets Indians.
He's like....
That's the metaphorical equivalent of a tomahawk chop to that teacher's head!TommyBrady said:
As a card holding blood member of the Choctaw Nation I find that only white liberals don't like the word Indians.
This is my tribal ID card which has Indian Affairs on it and then also declares how much "Indian Blood" I have.
Sounds like your teacher needs to stop virtue signaling and thinking she knows what we like to be called.
There's also the Solutrean hypothesis that about 20,000 yrs ago people from the Solutrean region of France migrated across the Atlantic on ice pack.MouthBQ98 said:
There are no native Americans. There are descendants of first peoples who migrated into the Americas from Asia approximately 18,000 to 16,000 years ago but no species of genus Homo had before existed in the Americans. We are a migratory native invasive. We came in multiple waves separated for a long time but by changing climate.
MouthBQ98 said:
There are no native Americans. There are descendants of first peoples who migrated into the Americas from Asia approximately 18,000 to 16,000 years ago but no species of genus Homo had before existed in the Americans. We are a migratory native invasive. We came in multiple waves separated for a long time but by changing climate.
infinity ag said:Towns03 said:
My kid was marked incorrect on a test answer this week. Her answer, "Indians", was marked incorrect and the teacher wrote in "Native Americans" in red pen to offer the correct response as feedback.
My question is what's the difference??
I understand that some claim the term 'indians' is offensive, but using the same logic shouldn't 'native americans' be offensive too? Where did the name 'America' come from? -An italian explorer. And 'native is an English word.
Is this just stupidity dressed as wokeness? Should I get another dog? Is there another take on this? What good can come from an email to the teacher? I hate to think what kind of indoctrination is going on...
Calling native Americans as "Indians" is wrong. India is in Asia. It was never in the West. Yes, there is a India, TX but that is not it.
In the middle ages, explorers from Europe came to today's America and thought they reached India as they were looking for trade. They called the locals "Indians". Dumbasses being dumbasses.
They should be called Native Americans or whatever other word they prefer. Not Indians.
To answer your Q, "Indians is NOT offensive, it is WRONG.
Whether "native Americans" is offensive or not, you have to ask a feather. I would say it is not incorrect and not offensive.
Because, there is only one approved term allowed by the all-knowing gov't, and your kid will use it or ruined.Quote:
So why is the teacher pushing one made up term over another?
Esteban du Plantier said:
I've been on several reservations in the last several years traveling in Arizona, Utah, South Dakota, New Mexico.
They call themselves Indians.
I'd be willing to wager every single public school textbook now refers to them as 'Native Americans'. The only reason the term 'Indian' was even used was because they thought they landed on the wrong continent.TommyBrady said:
As a card holding blood member of the Choctaw Nation I find that only white liberals don't like the word Indians.
This is my tribal ID card which has Indian Affairs on it and then also declares how much "Indian Blood" I have.
Sounds like your teacher needs to stop virtue signaling and thinking she knows what we like to be called.
Who?mikejones! said:
It's true though. There's practically one native people.
Everyone else can trace back to somewhere else. "Native Americans" were certainly not native to America, at least not anymore than you are
Who?mikejones! said:
you can call them "native Americans" if you wish. I certainly don't care. But, i'm as much a "native American" as any Indian.
Indian is a proper descriptor of the people who lived here when Columbus arrived. It certainly as valid as native American. And that's the point of the OP. His kid was docked points for choosing Indian over native American which is at best, historically inaccurate, and at worst, some sort of white guilt nonsense
CrackerJackAg said:Who?mikejones! said:
you can call them "native Americans" if you wish. I certainly don't care. But, i'm as much a "native American" as any Indian.
Indian is a proper descriptor of the people who lived here when Columbus arrived. It certainly as valid as native American. And that's the point of the OP. His kid was docked points for choosing Indian over native American which is at best, historically inaccurate, and at worst, some sort of white guilt nonsense
I personally don't give a ***** I don't even know any Native Americans. Can't tell you the last time I saw one. Much less two of them together.
I just think it's funny when Americans get all touchy about it.
I'm curious… How long have your people been here for you to consider yourself native?
Do you consider the Palestinians native to Jerusalem?
I don't. I'm just curious how you are doing the mental gymnastics to make everything work out for you.
Some of us, though, developed over the last 1000000 years.infinity ag said:MouthBQ98 said:
There are no native Americans. There are descendants of first peoples who migrated into the Americas from Asia approximately 18,000 to 16,000 years ago but no species of genus Homo had before existed in the Americans. We are a migratory native invasive. We came in multiple waves separated for a long time but by changing climate.
Yes, we are all Ethiopians. All migrated 1000000 odd years ago.
Time for a parent-teacher conferenceCW Griswold said:
The department of the federal government responsible for administering policies relating to Indian/Native American affairs is called the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Sounds like your kid has a typical politicaly correct teacher.
https://www.bia.gov/
OMG. Put this on Fox news. The horror.Towns03 said:
My kid was marked incorrect on a test answer this week. Her answer, "Indians", was marked incorrect and the teacher wrote in "Native Americans" in red pen to offer the correct response as feedback.
My question is what's the difference??
I understand that some claim the term 'indians' is offensive, but using the same logic shouldn't 'native americans' be offensive too? Where did the name 'America' come from? -An italian explorer. And 'native is an English word.
Is this just stupidity dressed as wokeness? Should I get another dog? Is there another take on this? What good can come from an email to the teacher? I hate to think what kind of indoctrination is going on...
ABATTBQ87 said:
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Iron Eyes Cody (born Espera Oscar de Corti, April 3, 1904 January 4, 1999) was an American actor of Sicilian descent who portrayed Native Americans in Hollywood films,[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Eyes_Cody#cite_note-snopes-2][2][/url] including the role of Chief Iron Eyes in Bob Hope's The Paleface (1948). He also played a Native American shedding a tear about pollution in one of the country's most well-known television public service announcements from the group Keep America Beautiful.
You aren't.Sid Farkas said:
My family first arrived at NY harbor in 1653.
I am Native American.
rather be fishing said:You aren't.Sid Farkas said:
My family first arrived at NY harbor in 1653.
I am Native American.
There is literally scientific evidence that verifies there were people in Texas 13,000 years ago.
