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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
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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
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