Indian

[QuillingQuillQuiller]

This word had disturbed me for 10 years.

Indian

We know people of India was called: Indian,

along with the native of American was also called: Indian.

Example:
An Indian had murdered an Indian.

Someone had suggested me to use the small capital for American native: indian.

An indian had murdered an Indian.

But, what I saw right now, the small "indian" was in the spell-checking error.

How to arrange this?

[Vismay]

Hey, I am an Indian(citizen of India)...:):) I think you can sort this out by simply using 'red indians' for native American residents.
Cheers!!
Vismay

[Maeve]

I like the word Amerind for the American variety.

[--Deb]

The politically-correct term these days for American Indians is "Native American," but I agree with Maeve, I always thought "Amerind" was a nice word. Pity it never caught on.

Still, you'd think that Columbus would have noticed that he wasn't in India...

--Deb

[Texgun]

The politically-correct term these days for American Indians is "Native American," but I agree with Maeve, I always thought "Amerind" was a nice word. Pity it never caught on.

Still, you'd think that Columbus would have noticed that he wasn't in India...

--Deb

Hi All,
I am a student of the history of the settling of the American West and have noticed that the term Amerind is used by the more accurate historians. The word Amerind is used throughout Hampton Sides’ book Blood and Thunder. The term is precise and leaves no ambiguity

[Mikes]

I'd never heard the term Amerind before. When I read it just now I thought it was some kind of orange :confused:

[Maeve]

Mikes,
I think I first came across the word in the works of naturalist Peter Farb. Btw, his writing is a superb example of how to write non-fiction.

American+Indian. You must have seen it as Ame+rind!