I really can't stand how people pretend to be educated about the first nations of this land and gather all of their information out of texts written by the same white men who have done so much to wipe us off the face of this earth.
Further, the blind ignorance that is the foundation for the acceptance of stereo-types and ethnic discrimination and prejudice drives me insane. Would you name your local sports team the spooks, the darkies, the porch monkeys? No. So why is OK for teams to be called the browns, redskins, chiefs, and indians. You people sicken me. We are not indians, first off, that was a mistake made by the same stupid white man who claimed the world was flat hundreds of years after the greeks told the world it was not. Don't call us indians. Indians are from India. And don't call us "Native Americans" as we were here as a people far before America decided to lie and kill and rape us out of our homes. I know these things were not done by my contemporaries, so I harbour no ill will towards my fellow Americans for what was done to us in the past, but I do hold a certain animosity to those who choose to remain ignorant and feed into the prejudice that has gone unchecked for so many years. I have half a mind to start using disparaging words to describe other people's ethnicities and cultures whenever i hear someone say indian and compound that idiocy with some remark like "feathers not dots," and the only thing keeping me from such an act is my own distaste for such action.
Think before you speak and open your eyes.