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> a bird that was known very well across indigenous generations as one name was decidedly named something like “John Smith’s Warbler” In English. Its English n
by jevoten 3y ago
> a bird that was known very well across indigenous generations as one name was decidedly named something like “John Smith’s Warbler”
In English. Its English name became "John Smith's Warbler". Its Cherokee or Apache name was and is unchanged.
This is a symptom of a common Anglosphere/American perspective - that US culture and the English language belongs to and must somehow reflect the peoples of the world, and not just the English and their colonies.