>>2843573Many American Indians prefer American Indian over Native American because
1. They don't want to change the term to what is now trendy.
2. Treaties and laws specify Indians, not Native Americans. Sometime down the road, they might encounter a problem because they are not Indians. This is not a joke, nor is it making something of nothing. My mom used to work with one of the foremost American Indian legal scholars, and this was his position and that of another professor I knew.
3. Anyone born in America is native to America. There are white people who are 15th generation Americans. Many Americans have never been outside this country. Taking over the term Native American would exclude and diminish all the other Native Americans.
