I was just reading a closed thread where people were discussing about Native Americans, and some of them were referring Native Americans as Indians.

So I am surprised that if you call a few Native Americans as Indians, what will you call people with 1 Billion population(Indians of India) as?


Don't you think that Indians is politically wrong term to refer them as. Or its a time when Indians from India should start asking for rights? Laughing

What should be correct term to call them as?
Native Americans OR Native Indians OR American Indians

I believe they should be called Native Americans. Either that or we could just call them "Those whom were here first". I personally believe that would be a better choice since there would be no discrepancy with the terminology and nobody could argue with that.

me being an american oooh don't email bomb me now respecting ones culture and religion (except one) is the best you can do if y ou know the tribes you can use that term if not native american is fine indians has been tolerated but some people still don't like it

Well it depends on what you're thinking.

Are people from India native to America? If so then, yes.

If they're from india and were never from America, they should be called Indians.

the question is referring to the indians the first came to the americas before the spanish and then the english invaded

People from India should be called Indians and people who lived on America before Americans should be called Native Americans. They're only called "Indians" because of Columbus' mistake of calling the Caribbean the West Indies.

I think i would be better to call the european americans "Colonian Americans" or whatever instead of calling the aborigens "natives". The natives in fact are more americans than the new americans, although the continent wasn´t called America before.

Native Indians is an awful term. With that you don´t even know where they are from. Asia?

"The people who inhabited the land known as North America first"... I think most people say Native Americans, That's what is written in the kid's textbooks now. My grandmother, who is half Native American, says Indians.

When referring to people from India, I've always saied "Indian Indians"

We have the same debate in Canada, although most people use the term First Nations people more often. Makes sense, though. After all, they have lived there way before the first Europeans set foot in the "New World" (what is now North America)