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People who call Native Americans like me Indians truly disgust me.
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Anonymous 1w

I don’t get how people get it wrong so often I learned that when I was in elementary school and I was like “oh shit I’ve been doing that this whole time” and just switched it up

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Anonymous 1w

I'm Puerto rican and I get the biggest ick when people refer to our indigenous peoples as Indios Taínos. Colonization got us so good our own people be saying it 🫩 Mind you, they didn't even call themselves Taínos. It should be Borikuas Indigenas.

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I have family in Ecuador and apparently it’s very common there to still call indigenous populations “Indians” as they don’t take offense like here in the states. It’s weird.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 1w

Bc indigenous people of the Americas aren’t Indian? they were only called that because some fuckass Europeans didn’t know the difference between America and Asia 🫩

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

i know lol

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