Talk:Hugh Glass/Archives/2017

political correctness or consistency, choose one

the article references "native americans", "natives", and "indians". one of these (likely "native americans") should be chosen and used consistently throughout. LazyMapleSunday (talk) 04:32, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

The political correct term these days is "American Indian"Hess36 (talk) 08:04, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

The politically correct term is "Native American". The native Americans had nothing to do with India.

I would vote for "Native American" when referring to the race generally or when the tribal group is not known; when the tribal group is known, then refer to them by tribal name: e.g.: Arisaka or Arisakas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_name_controversy Kortoso (talk) 18:02, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

I have read that the descendants of the original inhabitants of North America (how's that for a neutral term) find the term "Native American" offensive. The term is supposedly now politically incorrect. They prefer the name of their community (Apache, Arapaho, etc) or if a more general term is desired, they prefer Indian. This seems counterintuitive, but I believe the reasoning goes that they originally did come from Asia over the prehistoric Bering Sea land bridge, so although they are not specifically from the modern Idian subcontinent, they come from Asian stock. So also is the term Eskimo now considered a slur. The correct term is apparently Inuit. All very confusing, but I believe people should be called what they want to be called.98.162.136.248 (talk) 05:02, 11 January 2017 (UTC)