Comments on: ‘What I stand for’

By: Sean P. Hogan

Sean P. Hogan — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:18:38 +0000

Indian is not a racist term. It might be to those people who wish to control others’ speech but to everyone else, its just a word. Look at the Indian Residential Schools Resolution Canada, then look at who works there. You’ll find that many Indians do in fact work there. Do they believe that they are working under a racist banner? No, of course not. Again, stop the big brother stuff.

By: Bill-Muskoka

Bill-Muskoka — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 18:13:31 +0000

JCLH,

Aboriginal is commonly used in the NWT as is ‘indigenous people’. The difference being that true aboriginals were literally originally from an area, like in Australia.

Indigenous means basically the same thing, but leans more towards people who have lived in an area a long time. We know by DNA that many so-called aboriginals migrated from Asia across the Bering Strait to North America.

People get overly PC on such issues IMHO.

By: Bill-Muskoka

Bill-Muskoka — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 18:09:00 +0000

JCLH,

In Alaska they do call themselves Eskimos actually. Another error by Ottawa in not buying it from Russia and letting to U.S. do so. GRrrrrrrrrrrrr!