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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can see the confusion OP.

I personally don’t think the word native should be confused with indigenous, which usually refers to thousands of years. You can be a native  of a place in one life time while being indigenous requires many generations of your ancestors having lived in a place.

However the Smithsonian museum for indigenous Americans refers to Native American Indians so it is confusing. That museum includes indigenous Americans of central and south americas as well.

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The Smithsonian is the Museum of the American Indian.  Not the museum of indigenous Americans or Native Americans or Native American Indians.  It's not that confusing
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This is actually my favorite SM…  I remember when this museum opened and there was a lot of debate around whether to include the word native. Many indigenous groups were split on it and there was a lot of confusion since both American Indian and American native Indian are criticized as inaccurate … I still
find it confusing and prefer the term indigenous  … however, it is a gorgeous symbolic building both inside and outside ..,

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2004/09/american-indian-vs-native-american.html

American Indian vs. Native American
Which is the proper term?
BY BRENDAN KOERNER
SEPT 24, 20047:31 AM

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/the-head-of-national-museum-of-the-american-indian-on-what-we-should-all-know/2016/11/21/746c9c22-a109-11e6-a44d-cc2898cfab06_story.html

The head of National Museum of the American Indian on what we should all know
 By Joe Heim November 23, 2016 at 7:00 a.m. ET Kevin Gover, 61, is the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. A member of the Pawnee tribe, he was born in Oklahoma. He and his wife, Anne Marie, live in Northern Virginia. Do you prefer being called Native American or American Indian? I’m indifferent. [Laughs.] As a friend of mine says, they’re equally inaccurate, so you can use them interchangeably.[/quote]

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