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#IdleNoMore
... speaking of terms last evening with friends and a few others at the café Bistro, was very interesting. We stumbled on one specifically which is the "Indians" term that some people still use publicly toward the First Nations. We were laughing with each other saying that Native people are not coming from India and that this term was also widely regarded as old-fashioned and very inappropriate.
Indigenous people are most likely called, The Original (AbOriginal), Native people or as well as First Nations. But not erroneously referred as "Indians" like the first Europeans people when they mistakenly thought they had reached India in the fifteenth century. First Nations people have lived in the Northern Hemisphere for thousands of years and inhabited the area long enough before Europeans people "discovered" it.
(Absolutely no offense at all to the European's folks here)
Then starting to enumerate the most common North Faces groups in Canada: The Iroquois, Mohawk, The Cherokee, Sioux, Shawnee, Ojibwe, Light Skinned Cree (the largest indigenous tribe in Canada), Cheyenne, Mi'kmaq, among others.
To finally introduce myself to a few new friends in the café Bistro by saying; Hey btw, I'm Mohawk, but please call me Ben or Adrien. Cheers!