[Leica] Spanish name for Native Americans

[Christopher Crawford]

Douglas,

Hispanics in the Americas still use the word “Indios” (Indians) when
speaking Spanish (Castilian) and I think that it also true in Spain. How
do I know this? My family came to the US from Spain. I lived in New Mexico
and not only did my fellow Hispanics continue to call Native Americans
“Indians” when speaking English, the Pueblo people in New Mexico also
called themselves Indians, and they preferred Indian to Native American (a
term they regarded as an Anglo invention, irrelevant to them).

Understand that the Pueblo Indians, who constitute the majority of the
Native Americans in NM, prefer to speak Spanish among themselves and they
all have Hispanic names. They lived under Spanish rule for 210 years and
Mexican rule for 27.

There has been an effort among some of the younger Indians to revive their
native languages (there are actually three Pueblo languages) but Spanish
is still very much the everyday language of the New Mexico Pueblos.

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On 6/19/17, 6:31 AM, "LUG on behalf of Douglas Barry"
<lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org on behalf of
imra at iol.ie> wrote:

>Lluis, while I like both, I particularly like the stance of the woman,
>even though I don't approve of smoking. By the way, I don't think
>calling the man an Indian is what's done these days. He would be called
>a Native American in English. For instance, having been corrected by you
>for calling you Spanish, I would only call a Catalan now :-)
>
>Ireland owes a deep debt to Native Americans and has just unveiled a
>sculpture that you may find interesting.
>Here's a link that shows a picture and the story.
>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40304645
>
>Douglas
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>
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>On 19/06/2017 02:12, lluisripollphotography wrote:
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>> Fumando espero
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>> Thanks for looking, your c&c are welcome
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>> Saludos cordiales
>> Lluis
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