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Which name do you use?
Native  35%  [ 14 ]
First Nations  25%  [ 10 ]
Aboriginal  8%  [ 3 ]
Indian  33%  [ 13 ]
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:13 pm
 


I am often confused at the official language to use when describing Canada's aboriginal peoples. You see all of these terms used across the board, even the federal and provincial governments have no consistancy. Is there a proper term? What do people with aboriginal heritage perfer?

I've never used "Indian" I don't like it. I think its dumb how the Federal ministry is named "Indian Affairs".

In my hometown of Hope BC, the term "Native"was used the most.

I guess the confusion comes from our proximity to the USA, and there history of the term "Indians". It doesn't seem like Australia has this problem, Aboriginal seems to be the common term there.


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PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:17 pm
 


Indigenous personnel better? :lol:


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PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:18 pm
 


The term I've run into the most is First Nations. "Indians and Natives" are more colloquialism than anything else and I suspect the Department of Indian Affairs is a holdover from a less PC time.


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PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:29 pm
 


I believe the term "aboriginal" is used in the Constitution Act.


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PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:01 pm
 


Everyone where I live uses Indian.

Along with the Indian Affairs ministry in ottawa and the baseball team with Indians in their name.


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PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:10 pm
 


I don't like to use the term Indian anymore, I use that term for the other group of people in Canada that are actually from India.


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PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:14 pm
 


RUEZ - I usually call them Seeks or East Indians.


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PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:18 pm
 


Legally, it's Inians, by virtue of the Indian Act. In correspondencce though (unless you are referring to teh legal term "Indian") then First Nations or aboriginal seems to be common. These days I note that the term aboriginal is used more than First Nations.


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PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:12 pm
 


Indian just isn't accurate, so I avoid using it.


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PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:16 pm
 


sandorski sandorski:
Indian just isn't accurate, so I avoid using it.


Funny it was accurate for 100's of years, now it's not.


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PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:18 pm
 


westmanguy westmanguy:
RUEZ - I usually call them Seeks or East Indians.


I'm sure you meant Sikh... :roll:


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PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:35 pm
 


oops...yeah.

anyways it all politically correct banter anyways.

Same thing with people of the color black.

It went from:

Negro
Black
African-American

In Canada its usually "Black" because not many use the term "African-Canadian"

I say Indian, because that was the original name.

I am not going to change my words every decade for the word police


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PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:48 pm
 


Oh, so because it was the original name your going to keep using it? It makes no difference to you that the "Indians" don't like it? Or that the original name was a mistake because the people who first coined the name "Indian" were too stupid to know that they weren't in India, the place they were actually looking for when they found this land mass. If a people want to be called something in particular, have enough respect to use the name they prefer.


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PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:51 pm
 


QBC QBC:
Oh, so because it was the original name your going to keep using it? It makes no difference to you that the "Indians" don't like it? Or that the original name was a mistake because the people who first coined the name "Indian" were too stupid to know that they weren't in Indian, the place they were actually looking for when they found this land mass. If a people want to be called something in particular, have enough respect to use the name they prefer.
They were too stupid to know they weren't in India? Really?


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PostPosted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:57 pm
 


QBC - I am a conservative.

I don't change my word every decade for the pc-police or the group that wants a different name now.


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