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1 American Indian vs Native American – do you know the difference? Indians typically refer to themselves as American Indian because the term Native American is a moniker created by the US government for monetary purposes and, via cultural understanding of the old adage that 'money is the root of all evil', the people did not see being called a Native American as necessarily honourable ...
moreover, the term American Indian does not recognize separation and instead addresses indigenous unity of both the northern and southern continents of America –