With all due respect …
Compiled and
edited by Carolyn LaDelle Bennett
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ame giving, taking or changing is not about “Justice” nor
can name-tinkering secure justice, ensure redress or respect, change history or
mend relations. Only people with people can accomplish and ensure substantive
change. Anything other than this is transitory, merely show. Moreover the varieties
of “Indian” are almost too many to count.
“Indian”: (adjective/noun) inhabit of India or South Asia;
pertaining to India (c. 1300); from Late Latin indianus, from India; Applied to
the aboriginal native inhabitants of the Americas from at least 1553 as a noun
(1610s as an adjective), reflecting Spanish and Portuguese use, on the mistaken
notion that America was the eastern end of Asia (it was also used occasionally
18c.-19c. of inhabitants of the Philippines and indigenous peoples of Australia
and New Zealand. The Old English adjective was Indisc, and Indish (adj.) was
common in 16c. ● Red Indian: used to distinguish the native Americans from
inhabitants of India; first attested 1831 in British English (Carlyle) but was
not commonly used in North America. ● 
More than 500 modern phrases include
Indian, most of them U.S. and most impugning honesty or
Merriam Webster: Indian [n. (14c)]: 1) a native or
inhabitant of India or of the East Indies; a person of Indian descent; 2) American
Indian: one of the native languages of American Indians— Indian, adjective; Indianness,
noun
Wikipedia: of India: Something or someone of or from the
nation of India: Indian people, people of Indian nationality, or people who are
citizens or residents of India; non-resident Indian and person of Indian
origin, a citizen of India who has temporarily emigrated to another country.
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n the Americas: Indigenous peoples of the Americas, the
pre-Columbian inhabitants of North
and South America and their descendants; Native
Americans in the United States, the indigenous people in the United States; Plains
Indians, the common name for the Native Americans who lived on the Great Plains
of the United States; First Nations, the various Aboriginal peoples in Canada
who are neither Inuit nor Métis; Indigenous peoples in South America, peoples
living in South America in the pre-Colombian era and their descendants; Native
Mexicans, indigenous people of Mexico; West Indians, people from the Caribbean
region and the Lucayan Archipelago; Mardi Gras Indians, African-American
Carnival revelers in New Orleans, Louisiana, whose suits are influenced by
Native American ceremonial apparel.
Of Australia: Aboriginal Australians, called ‘Indians’ until
the 19th century; Languages: Indigenous languages of the Americas, spoken by
indigenous peoples from Alaska and Greenland to the southern tip of South
America; Languages of India, including Indo-Aryan languages and Dravidian
languages.
In the Arts/Music/Film/other Entertainment: Indian (1996 film), a Tamil film; Indian
(2001 film), a Hindi film; Indians (musician): moniker of Danish singer Søren
Løkke Juul accompanied by some musicians also collectively known as Indians; ‘Indian’
(song), by Sturm und Drang; Indian (soundtrack), an album from the 1996 film; Indians
(song), by Anthrax; Indian (card game), a simple card game that involves
strategy; Indian soap opera/soap operas written, produced, and filmed in India;
Indians (play), a 1968 play by Arthur Kopit
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usiness and Sport: Indian (airline), now defunct state-owned
airline of India; Indian Motorcycle Manufacturing Company, an American company
later called Indian Manufacturing Company, that produced the brand ‘Indian
motorcycles’ from 1901 to 1953 ● Cleveland Indians, a professional baseball team
based in Cleveland, Ohio; Frölunda HC or Frölunda Indians, a Swedish
professional ice hockey club based in Gothenburg; Indianapolis Indians, a minor
league baseball team based in Indianapolis, Indiana; Indios de Mayagüez, a
baseball team in the Puerto Rican Professional Baseball League; Mumbai Indians,
a franchise cricket team representing the city of Mumbai in the Indian Premier
League; Springfield Indians, a minor professional ice hockey franchise,
originally based in West Springfield, Massachusetts.
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laces: Indian, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in
Kanawha County; Indian Creek;
Indian Island; Indian Ocean; Indian River,
several rivers and communities; Indian Run, streams in the U.S. states of
Pennsylvania and West Virginia; Indian subcontinent; The Indians, British
Virgin Islands islets group (Wikipedia) ● Indiana: (1765 in English): name
given to the region north of the Ohio River (mid-18c. by French explorers or
settlers); Indian + Latin-derived place-name suffix –ana); Indianian (1784) (source:
Etymology online) ● West Indies/West Indian: Caribbean islands explored by
Columbus, 1550s, reflecting the belief (or hope) that they were western
outliers of the Indies of Asia; West Indian (from 1580s in reference to the
native inhabitants, 1650s in reference to European settlers there, and 1928 in
reference to people of West Indian ancestry) ● Indonesia: ‘East Indies’ (1850);
formerly called Indian Archipelago or East Indies Islands (source: Etymology
online)
Other: Indian cuisine, a wide variety of regional cuisines
native to India; Indian Head cent, a coin produced by the United States Mint
from 1859 to 1909; Indus, a constellation in the southern sky (Wikipedia) ●
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ndian Summer (n., 1774): weather: occurring anywhere from
mid-September to nearly December, varying by location, a “spell of warm, dry,
hazy weather after the first frost” (origin disputed) (Etymology online)
Sources:
Merriam Webster, Etymology Online, Wikipedia
References
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Indian
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=indian+summer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian
News pegs: October 17, 2016: LA Times sports reporting Toronto,
Ontario, Judge dismisses attempt to prohibit Cleveland Indians’ use of their
name and logo during the American League Championship Series; and CHCH TV Online
reporting “Cleveland ‘Indians’ controversy”
http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-cleveland-indians-name-controversy-20161017-snap-story.html
http://www.chch.com/cleveland-indians-controversy/
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A lifelong American writer and writer/activist (former academic and staffer with the U.S. government in Washington), Dr. Carolyn LaDelle Bennett is credentialed in education and print journalism and public affairs (PhD, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan; MA, The American University, Washington, DC). Her work concerns itself with news and current affairs, historical contexts, and ideas particularly related to acts and consequences of U.S. foreign relations, geopolitics, human rights, war and peace, and violence and nonviolence. Dr. Bennett is an internationalist and nonpartisan progressive personally concerned with society and the common good. An educator at heart, her career began with the U.S. Peace Corps, teaching in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Since then, she has authored several books and numerous current-affairs articles; her latest book: UNCONSCIONABLE: How The World Sees Us: World News, Alternative Views, Commentary on U.S. Foreign Relations; most thoughts, articles, edited work are posted at Bennett’s Study: http://todaysinsightnews.blogspot.com/ and on her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/carolynladelle.bennett. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/08UNCONSCIONABLE/prweb12131656.htm http://bookstore.xlibris.com/Products/SKU-000757788/UNCONSCIONABLE.aspx Her books are also available at independent bookstores in New York State: Lift Bridge in Brockport; Sundance in Geneseo; Dog Ears Bookstore and Literary Arts Center in Buffalo; Burlingham Books in Perry; The Bookworm in East Aurora
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