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Albert Speer
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Puerile Polemic
Mar 1999 time: 00:29
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I always say American Indians... Native Americans can get confusing... for example, in history class, when you got to talk about the 19th century, native americans can mean either people like the cherokee or it could mean the anglos who were here before large scale european immigration. the teacher once said the native americans were hostile to the irish immigrants and half the people in the class thought the indians hated the irish and couldn't figure out why.
so American Indians is the best term... besides, i believe that the majority of american indians do call themselves indians when they're talking about indians as a whole (and not a specific tribe).
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Albert Speer
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Puerile Polemic
Mar 1999 time: 00:29
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Lorizael:
say what? what do you call someone born in a country and lived there their whole life? there's native englishmen... so there's native americans.
the US also has the whole immigration thing that many countries don't have so you need ther term 'native' even more just to differentiate between the anglos and the irish, italian, etc. immigrants. what else would you call them but native americans?
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MichaeltheGreat
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Apolyton Grand Executioner
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mooning the house that Ruth built.
Oct 1999 time: 21:29
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There's no linguistic relation at all between Tsitsista (Cheyenne) and the Dakhota language.
They were unusually close allies once they moved to the plains.
Originally, both groups lived in the southern and central Minnesota area, and fought each other and the Ojibway incessently, competing over resources. As they moved further out in the plains, the northern Tsitsista informally allied with the Teton, most likely since they were both relative newcomers competing against other groups, and their newly nomadic and highly mobile existence lessened competition with each other.
Eventually, it was common for them to have adjoining camps in winter, intermarriage (otherwise frowned on - marriages between separate nations in pre-reservation times were rare), even some adoptions into clans and societies.
Southern Tsitsista eventually moved further south into the central plains, where they maintained ties with the northern Tsitsista and to a lesser extent the Teton. The southern Tsitsista developed a closer alliance with the Inuna-ina (Arapaho), another Minnesota migrant to the plains. There's not much to indicate any ties with the Inuna-ina (edit - before the migration to the plains was essentially completed) since they were native to northern Minnesota and migrated later (beginning of the 18th century)
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