Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!vsi1!altnet!uunet!wucs1!jps From: jps@wucs1.wustl.edu (James Sterbenz) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Native Americans Message-ID: <289@wucs1.wustl.edu> Date: 19 Sep 88 16:01:47 GMT References: <474@oravax.UUCP> Reply-To: jps@wucs1.UUCP (James Sterbenz) Organization: Washington University, St. Louis, MO Lines: 24 In article <474@oravax.UUCP> harper@oravax.UUCP (Doug Harper) writes: >In article <242@wucs1.wustl.edu> jps@wucs1.UUCP (James Sterbenz) writes: >>Even in the U.S. "native americans" [sic] (yes, "indians" [sic] >>are the REAL native >americans) have non-standard forms. >... Anyone native to >either American continent qualifies as a native American: it is >parochial and exclusionary to think otherwise. It is downright rude to >tell us that we are not REAL native Americans. I believe that a >retraction is in order. I was merely recognizing that {American Indians, Native Americans, The branch of the Mongoloid Race which crossed the Asian-North American land bridge to originally settle in the North American continent} were here first. I was trying to be polite, and this is how I beleive {...}'s like to be refered to. If not, I'd like to hear from someone of the aforementioned race. I wasn't starting a debate on what to call members of the {...} race. RETRACTION?? Get real... half :-) -- James Sterbenz Computer and Communications Research Center Washington University in St. Louis 314-726-4203 INTERNET: jps@wucs1.wustl.edu UUCP: wucs1!jps@uunet.uu.net