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Identifying Native Americas Book Report
I recently read a few sections in the book: Everything you wanted to know about Indians but were afraid to ask by: Anton Treuer. The sections I read from the book were based on terminology and history of Native Americans. The book states facts about terminology of identifying Native Americas. Over the years many terms were giving to Indians some being appropriate and others not so appropriate. Reading this books gives incite to people whom are unaware of the history and meaning of terms given to Indians and which is the proper terms they should use when identifying with an Indian. Columbus gave the term Indians when he accidentally stumbled upon the Caribbean’s thinking it was the Indian Ocean, therefore thinking we were Indians from India.

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