An excellent essay, "American Indian vs. Native American: A Note on 
Terminology," by the historian Kathryn Walbert, is available at 
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nc-american-indians/5526

Elsa Kramer
Indianapolis


>Date:    Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:42:17 -0400
>From:    "Lambert, Frank" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: San Jose SLIS to Award Scholarships to American Indians 
>and Alaska Natives
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>It is astonishing that any institution of higher learning would 
>refer to North America's native peoples as "Indians."  It's as 
>though SLIS was the first graduate school off of the ships navigated 
>by the first western European explorers 5-600 years ago and 
>believing that it had actually landed on the Indian subcontinent. 
>Amazing!  Well, if it is okay for Library of Congress to continue to 
>perpetuate this term of ignorance in its list of subject headings, I 
>guess it is perfectly fine to continue using it in other contexts. 
>Or is it?
>
>FL
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>Frank Lambert, Ph.D.
>Assistant Professor
>School of Library and Information Science
>Kent State University
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>314W University Library
>Kent, OH 44242
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