Comments by "themarbleking" (@themarbleking) on "A Conversation With Native Americans on Race | Op-Docs" video.

  1. When Natives reclaim the name for their land , only then will they be able to unite under one totem. Like when Ceylon was renamed Sri Lanka or when Rhodesia was renamed Zimbabwe. Find the native name for the land. It was named after Amerrigo Vespuggi. Only then will their freedom begin.
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  2. Native Americans sound dumb when they call their land ‘America’ named after the European explorer Amerigo Vespucci. Don’t they have their own name for it? Like everyone everywhere! They’ll probably be say “oh! We called it many different names, we spoke many languages!” All countries spoke many languages, even Britain! Just say you’ve forgotten or make up a new one! ‘America’ is a nickname for that land, what is the real one? Do I have to find out from a white man? Isn’t there one native scholar who knows or are you in such fear, awe and reverence to your white overlords?
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  3. Native Americans sound dumb when they call their land ‘America’ named after the European explorer Amerigo Vespucci. Don’t they have their own name for it? Like everyone everywhere! They’ll probably be say “oh! We called it many different names, we spoke many languages!” All countries spoke many languages, even Britain! Just say you’ve forgotten or make up a new one! ‘America’ is a nickname for that land, what is the real one? Do I have to find out from a white man? Isn’t there one native scholar who knows or are you in such fear, awe and reverence to your white overlords?
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  4. kendodubbag72 Thanks, this will make my students happy. What is a (the?) native translation of the word’Turtle’? We know they couldn’t fly 12,000 miles high so ‘Turtle Island’ can’t be right. They would call it Land of - “put in appropriate people”. As in ‘Scotland’ land of the Scottish. In Germany, they are Germanic. Or in Spain theyre Spanish. You are not “Turtlish”. I understand that it may have been lost and forgotten during the invasion, and of course find the Term ‘Turtle Island’ as simplistic as calling Italy ‘boot island” too simplistic! I think what we really want to know is what was the collective native term for ‘Native Americans’. And I understand there were many tribes as there were in every country, but I’m looking for the collective term? As in ‘Kiowaland’. ‘Comancheland’ but not tribe, but people specific. Thanks!
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