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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 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: multipart/alternative; >boundary="_000_FEA827C08D2D824CA8BD22534B1DD2BA25AACD7E0EKENTSMBX01KEN_" > >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 > >~~ >Frank Lambert, Ph.D. >Assistant Professor >School of Library and Information Science >Kent State University >P.O. Box 5190 >314W University Library >Kent, OH 44242 >330-672-0015-voice >330-672-7965-fax >[log in to unmask] > >"A little learning is a dangerous thing; >Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring." >-Alexander Pope (An Essay on Criticism - 1711) >