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Probably not because most writers aren't concerned with articles from an out-of-country point of view and since quite a few local reservation high school teams
by protomyth 10y ago
Probably not because most writers aren't concerned with articles from an out-of-country point of view and since quite a few local reservation high school teams are named "Indians" which indicates a local acceptance. "American Indian" is pretty well the accepted form of address for a lot of tribes but people do get tired of the added word. "Native American" is used quite a bit and the Canadians went with "1st Nation"[1], but plain "Indian" is ingrained. Amazingly, I haven't run into anyone who calls themselves "indigenous people".
1) although their picking of the word "reserve" instead of "reservation" almost got me into a brawl in 87. "What reserve did you come from?" was probably a friendly question, but we were young and my friend took it really, really wrong.