An acquaintance who grew up on the "rez" (his term) in South Dakota told me that he and his family preferred to be called American Indians when all the tribes were grouped together and not native Americans. As he put it, not my reasoning, the "Old Ones" were here before his people. Actually, he said, tribes preferred to be designated by individual names (Lakota, Cherokee, etc.) and not lumped under one term.
An acquaintance who grew up on the "rez" (his term) in South Dakota told me that he and his family preferred to be called American Indians when all the tribes were grouped together and not native Americans. As he put it, not my reasoning, the "Old Ones" were here before his people. Actually, he said, tribes preferred to be designated by individual names (Lakota, Cherokee, etc.) and not lumped under one term.