tomi, good question..........just "indian".......it was indian when it all started and it's still indian......Bureau of Indian Affairs.....BIA. that hasn't changed.
it was politicians that changed the wording. it's interesting to me, that it has never bothered me, or the other indians that i know, to be called an indian. a Navajo would die laughing over being called a Native American. he/she would immediately start asking pointed questions about why they were being called that..........a Comanche, here, would probably turn their back on you and just walk away.

so many people get so uptight over the politically correct terms nowadays.....and i suspect that a politician coined "politically correct", don't you?


the village that i lived in, in NM, was once owned by indians. Onate' came in with his soldiers and killed the inhabitants and took the village over. changed the name also. he and his army went to the Acoma pueblos and cut the right foot off of every grown male. as this was being related to me by an indian, he said, "i bet them indians back then was just praying to be left along so they could go back to being indians"..........Onate' came over from Spain and took the majority of NM away from the original inhabitants.

hundreds of thousands of taxpayers's dollars were used, while i lived in NM, to build a huge bronze statue of Onate', on his horse, that stood by the new visitor's center. (which was named for a local politician, who was ousted from office for taking bribes ) a friend and i plotted some "monkey-wrenching" for the bronze. BUT, before we got to it, two days, in fact, someone went in there at night and very expertly cut the right front foot off of the horse!! bet we don't know who did that!! it was the talk of NM for a long, long time.........