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Never heard of first nations but as somebody who grew up around Indian country I think we should approach this area with a little more scholarship and learn abo
by junofan 3y ago
Never heard of first nations but as somebody who grew up around Indian country I think we should approach this area with a little more scholarship and learn about what actually happened instead of jumping to conclusions.
- knome 3y agoI hate this kind of disingenuous bullshit response.
- decremental 3y ago[dead]
- JohnFen 3y agoYou grew up in such an area and yet you've never heard the term "first nations"?
- vodkadin 3y agoIsn’t it a more Canadian term? First time I heard it as an American was in relation to Canadian tribes.
- JohnFen 3y agoI don't know. I grew up in the US (Pacific NW) and it's been a common term for at least my whole life. Same with its synonym, "First Peoples".
- jaywalk 3y agoYeah, I thought it was a Canadian thing as well. Coming from an area that was heavily populated by Indians, it was a relatively large part of the curriculum back in my younger days. And I never heard that term in relation to Native Americans.
- daveslash 3y agoI'd be a bit reluctant to quickly judge someone's exposure to the various terminology around this topic. CGP Grey has a good video on the terminology as used in the US [0]. From the video: "Talking to people over the last [sigh] 5 years revealed a strong correlation: the closer a person had ever been to a reservation, the more likely they would be to use the word 'indian'. The farther, the more likely they would be to use the word 'Native American'." and also "At the time of writing [this video/2019], 'Indian' is used by Indians on Indian reservations to describe themselves" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh88fVP2FWQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh88fVP2FWQ