> “We were enslaved as American Indians, we were colonized as American Indians, and we will gain our freedom as American Indians and then we can call ourselves

> “We were enslaved as American Indians, we were colonized as American Indians, and we will gain our freedom as American Indians and then we can call ourselves anything we damn please,” - Russell Means, a Lakota activist, wrote in his 1998 essay, “I Am An American Indian, Not a Native American!” https://compusci.com/indian/ https://compusci.com/indian/ See also: https://www.fair360.com/medialib/uploads/2020/11/Native-American-Heritage-Month-Meeting-in-a-Box-Terminology.pdf https://www.fair360.com/medialib/uploads/2020/11/Native-Amer...