>>1762103And I still think that, at least in English. Native Americans, as I understand it, are the guys with Casinos and the likes of Sitting Bull and Pocahontas. You don't call a Huasteco (a descendant from mixtures of prehispanic races, VERY brown Mexican people) a Native American, you just don't.
Let me put a few examples in Spanish:
Amerindio->Despective term by Spaniards, reffers to ANY inhabitant of The Americas precolonization.
Piel Roja-> Native American (not prehispanic). Dated way to call them. Apache or Nativo Americano would be modern equivalents.
Prehispanos->Mexicas (Aztecs), Acolhuas, Tecpanecas, Tzapotecas, Chichimecas, Purepechas, Mayans, etc; NOT the Apaches, nor Incas for that matter.
Yaki-> Way Prehispanics refered to Native Americans, still somewhat used to date.
That's just to kind of explain where my idea came from. We have literally dozens of terms to call the races and the mixtures between them. You may know a few, like mestizo, mulato, castizo or criollo. If I'm wrong I'm wrong and that's it; but I would still find it extremely weird to reffer to any of our native races (of which I happen to be a mixture of) as Native Americans.
