• @[email protected]
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    455 months ago

    Love me some Four Corners mischief. There is usually a food truck there serving Native American frybread - delicious!!!

    • Flying SquidOPM
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      275 months ago

      Do they sell “Indian tacos?” I had that when I was working at a local TV station shooting news footage of a regional powwow and it was awesome. Taco ingredients on the frybread you’re talking about.

      I’m not meaning to be culturally insensitive. They called them Indian tacos, not me.

      • @[email protected]
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        75 months ago

        Yes, American Indians prefer to be called Indians, not native Americans. You’re not being insensitive.

        • Flying SquidOPM
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          135 months ago

          In my experience, there seems to be a lot of disagreement on that point, but it is not my ethnicity, so I don’t feel like I’m right to speak on any of their behalves.

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          5 months ago

          I live in a population area with a lot of native Americans, and I’ve literally never heard that before. I only hear a preference toward, “native” or “indigenous”.

          • @[email protected]
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            35 months ago

            have you ever asked them? My wife works on reservations. They unanimously want to be called Indian. CGP Grey has a video on it as well I’m pretty sure. And I think it’s pretty telling that the agency is called the Bureau of Indian Affairs and not the Bureau of Native American affairs. https://www.usa.gov/agencies/bureau-of-indian-affairs

            We’ve had plenty of reform of sports team names, you’d think they’d want to reform the actual federal agency name if it wasn’t what they wanted it to be called.

            • @[email protected]
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              25 months ago

              Yeah, I have. I wonder if it’s a difference of reservation versus non-reservation? I don’t really interact with people from the reservations, just people that have moved into the city. Really interesting, I’ll look for that video.

            • Flying SquidOPM
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              25 months ago

              I generally try to avoid the whole thing and call any people who were there before the colonials came ‘indigenous,’ which applies to the peoples of Australia and Polynesia as it does the Americas.

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            35 months ago

            because Indian can be confused with a billion+ other ppl in the world.
            the 'ol “feather or dot” question

    • @[email protected]
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      95 months ago

      Holy shit I haven’t thought about frybread in like, a decade and now you made me think about it. How dare you.

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      5 months ago

      I miss fry bread sooo much. I always try to tell people it’s like funnel cake but simpler. I haven’t had it since I’ve been to Havasupai.