Re: OT: Re: RARA-AVIS: Recent read, Jim Thompson, The Rip Off

From: Robert Elkin ( rictusaporia@yahoo.com)
Date: 18 Oct 2007


Just to chime in: as MEH says. But notably, the most obvious NA/AI political movement uses AI[M].

----- Original Message ---- From: " mhall@berkeley.edu" < mhall@berkeley.edu> To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 10:51:28 AM Subject: OT: Re: RARA-AVIS: Recent read, Jim Thompson, The Rip Off

  

    
> Colin wrote:

>

> "Interestingly, he's a Native American in the current parlance."

>

> Actually, Colin, we've switched back to American Indian over here in the

> US, as the somewhat recently opened Smithsonian Museum of the American

> Indian indicates.

>

> Mark

As somebody who used to work in a NAGPRA unit at a museum,

it is really dependent on the tribe--some like Native American, some

like American Indian, though the chancellor at the university where I was

at thought any use of Indian was equated to the N wor for

African-Americans. ..

Best, MEH

    
  

    
    

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