{"id":830,"date":"2018-04-12T17:30:50","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T17:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jeffersoncc-nativeamericanlit\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=830"},"modified":"2018-04-12T17:30:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T17:30:50","slug":"what-terms-do-we-use-when-naming-writers","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jeffersoncc-nativeamericanlit\/chapter\/what-terms-do-we-use-when-naming-writers\/","title":{"raw":"What Terms do we use When Naming Writers?","rendered":"What Terms do we use When Naming Writers?"},"content":{"raw":"Is there a right way to identify our authors or Native Americans?\r\n\r\nMany Native Americans prefer to be called by their group names (i.e., Mohawk).\u00a0 This makes sense.\u00a0 Still others argue that \"Native Americans\" is an improvement over \"Indians.\"\u00a0 Others note that the word \"Indian\" translates from <em>in Dios<\/em>, which means \"with or in God.\"\u00a0 Regardless of their reasons, many Native people continue to use the term <em>Indian<\/em>.\r\n\r\nThis debate also brings up the following questions:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>How do we negotiate between personal, communal, and national identities?<\/li>\r\n \t<li>How does our use of language mark us, carrying historical connotations we often cannot control?<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Why is the debate over naming--like the debates over mascots--inherently political?<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nI take my prompt for the use of \"Indian\" from the historian James Wilson, who includes a note about his own use of the term.\u00a0 Nearby in Canada, they use terms like <em>first nations people<\/em> or even <em>aboriginal<\/em>.\u00a0 I use these terms as well, though I am aware that each differs in connotations.\r\n\r\nIt may be best if you work from the group outward, naming an author by their tribal affiliation if you know it.","rendered":"<p>Is there a right way to identify our authors or Native Americans?<\/p>\n<p>Many Native Americans prefer to be called by their group names (i.e., Mohawk).\u00a0 This makes sense.\u00a0 Still others argue that &#8220;Native Americans&#8221; 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