Originally posted by Stocdoctor
Hey Namecaster, with all due respect, I'm afraid your name is still mud on these selections. Using them for a national site for Native Americans would be a mistake and even could be considered a slight by any of the Tribes. So don't waste your money.
Before suggesting usage of Tribal names by anyone, it would be best to do a little research. For example, I am of partial Native American decent. We prefer the name "Lakota" even though most refer to us as "Sioux" Indians. Sioux is the chopped off end of the French spelling of an Ojibwa term for the "Sioux", in French spelling Nadouessioux. The truncation process was common in early colonial French slang names for native peoples.
The names above may be more appropriate for East Indian (India)usage. I'd suggest you do a little more research before trying to make that work as well. The word Indian isn't even considered politically correct as it originated from the belief held by Columbus that the lands he discovered were part of Asia.
Doc
Stoc..I disagree with you...for starters I am 1/4 Cherokee INDIAN...There are /were of 100 INDIAN tribes in the US...!!!
http://www.americanwest.com/pages/indrank.htm
To say that they are /were "gentle people" is simply not true...they are no more "gentle" than any other people.
They fought , killed each other including women and children , raped each others women, stole from each other for hundreds of years !.. same as most people of the earth .
The Apaches were well known..
http://southwest.library.arizona.edu/reaz/body.1_div.15.html
Fromthe shawnee ..."It was a great event when a warrior husband returned from a raid with an iron kettle or camp skillet"
Now I wonder who's skillet it was they took..and who did they kill for a skillet ? !
http://www.firstcapitalohio.com/shawnee.html
I am also an 8th generational grandson of Daniel Boone and son Nathan Boone. Many "pioneers" were simply slaughtered by these "peaceful" people !
"In December, however, they were attacked by Indians. Boone and a companion were captured; and when they escaped they found their camp broken up, and the rest of the party scattered and gone home. About this time they were joined by Squire Boone, the brother of the great hunter, and himself a woodsman of but little less skill, together with another adventurer; the two had traveled through the immense wilderness, partly to explore it and partly with the hope of finding the original adventurers, which they finally succeeded in doing more by good luck than design. Soon afterward Boone's companion in his first short captivity was again surprized by the Indians, and this time was slain--the first of the thousands of human beings with whose life-blood Kentucky was bought. The attack was entirely unprovoked. The Indians had wantonly shed the first blood. The land belonged to no one tribe, but was hunted over by all, each feeling jealous of every other intruder; they attacked the whites, not because the whites had wronged them, but because their invariable policy was to kill any strangers on any grounds over which they themselves ever hunted, no matter what man had the best right thereto. The Kentucky hunters were promptly taught that in this no-man's land, teeming with game and lacking even a solitary human habitation, every Indian must be regarded as a foe."
by Theodore Roosevelt
Daniel had 2 sons killed by indians..
http://www.pastseeker.com/boone/children/sons-ja-is-wi/lostsons.shtml
And Daughter Jemina and 2 friends was kidnaped by Indians, but was rescued by her father..
Daniel Boone himself was kidnaped by the shawnee.. was held for 5 months before he finally escaped.. He was officially adopted by Chief Blackfish as a son and In that time he thought of Chief Blackfish and family as a second family....he drew close to them and respected them but always understood they would kill him if they caught him trying to escape..(nice parents ! :laugh
(this is just in my family !)
The facts are people are people white, red, black tan..we have many great qualities and many horrific qualities..We love our neighbors..we kill our neighbors..
"Indian" is only a INCLUSIVE description of a GROUP peoples ..the same as calling a group of people "European" even though some are Brits. some Irish, some polish etc... ..
Now if you are talking about a specific TRIBEs ...then yes you speak of that tribe..Shawnee, Delaware, Cherokee etc..
Thats why I think his domain works..anyone searching "Native Indian" and many do..
http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/
can then be taken to specifiic tribes..
NativeIndians.US/Apaches.htm , NativeIndians.US/Cherokee.htm etc...
The Native Indians .."all inclusive" ... Politically Correct ? ..
Do we really need to go there..
Here..this guy sums it up pretty well.. a little crude but basically on target IMO...
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/1521/carlin_pclanguage3.html
