Re: [NTLK] [OT] New iPhones/iPhone OS 3.0

From: Ryan Vetter <physicalconstants_at_yahoo.ca>
Date: Sun Jun 14 2009 - 13:56:27 EDT

Can we please keep on topic?

Thanks.

----- Original Message ----
From: Jon Glass <jonglass@usa.net>
To: newtontalk@newtontalk.net
Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2009 10:29:20 AM
Subject: Re: [NTLK] [OT] New iPhones/iPhone OS 3.0

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Gary Moody<gmoody@gmx.net> wrote:
> We prefer the term "Native Americans". "Indians" was a term foisted on the indigenous people of the Americas by Columbus when he thought he had actually landed in India, as he was looking for a new spice trade route.
>
Actually, I had a friend--full-blood, Poarch-Creek Indian. who
preferred to be called "American Indian" vs. "native American." I
never bothered asking him why.

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-Jon Glass
Krakow, Poland
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