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Who even says “Indian” to describe Native Americans anymore?

One of my friends who is also native used that word to describe someone from a neighboring tribe and I genuinely thought he was talking about an Indian as in from India. No one says that for Native Americans anymore, at least not around here! It’s not only politically incorrect, but just plain incorrect. It’s outdated. He as a indigenous person should know that. Say indigenous or Native Americans, but don’t call us Indians anymore. It’s more offensive than being called “red” at this point. 😂

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Stark

Uneducated people. I think the use of Indian for natives is so common even among natives themselves is due to being uneducated about it. I use to use the term Indian too, but I recently discovered the correct term(s) are Native, Native American, indigenous (seems to be the more preferred term), or if you know their tribe name. Indian refers to someone from India which makes sense for it to be incorrect when referring to a Native American person who isn’t from India. Indian is considered offensive when non-natives use it to describe indigenous people. The fact that people aren’t willing to educate themselves about it, but instead, just go with it, because that’s what they’re use to is a bit sad and why there’s so much ignorance in the world.