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- From: thayes@desire.wright.edu
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- Subject: Re: "Bilingual Education"
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.122333.5486@desire.wright.edu>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 12:23:33 EST
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- (I'm going to regret getting into this string, I just know it.)
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- PB> I've become a reluctant partisan of "Amerindian" if only to distinguish
- > such from "Asian Subcontinent / Hindu/Sikh Indians from the country of
- > India" - the _real_ "Indians".
-
- ?
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- As opposed to those who call themselves "the Indian people/nation" and who
- happen to live in Arizona, etc.?
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- > But what do _they_ call themselves? They certainly didn't know they
- > were Americans when Columbus "discovered" them, and probably didn't
- > learn this until much later.
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- Two serious questions. First: what did people of the Asian subcontinent call
- _themselves_ before "we" called them Indians? Second: my (non-Indian) friends
- from the US Southwest tell me that the aboriginal populace refers to itself as
- Indian (or Cheyenne, etc.); there is a politically active group called American
- Indian Movement; thus, mightn't this serve as an indication that these people
- could safely be referred to as Indian?
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- PB>I don't particularly like "aboriginal
- > Americans", because they certainly weren't really "citizens" of America
- > until fairly recently.
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- I think the idea is that they were denizens of the *continent* we refer to as
- North America -- or whichever continent this is that stretches from the tip of
- Panama to the glaciers of Canada -- *not* that they are citizens of the
- *country* we refer to as the United States of America.
-
- Now what about bilingual education, again?
-
- -----ted hayes
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