Submitted by An_Old_Big_Tree in indigenous (edited )
In Canada people prefer "First Nations" and in places around Africa "native" is often a word that racists use.
"Native" is also typically used by certain US groups, in a way that makes the forum seem US-centric.
"Native" is a contentious word, whereas "Indigenous" is not.
What are thoughts on changing the forum to "indigenous"?
I would rather post less obviously radical stuff about indigenous people in an "indigenous" forum, but I feel uncomfortable with 'native', and end up posting to "Decolonisation" instead.
zer0crash wrote
Native folks in the US refer to themselves as Native tho. Would you ask them to change what they call themselves? Other than learning it's used in a derogatory way in Africa, I wasn't aware it was a contentious word and I'm Yaqui.