Celebrating life … the injun way
September 28th, 2006
Long before 1492 when good ol’ Chris Columbus set sail on Wednesday, August 3, 1492, with the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria, groups of people, collectively called in my-speak, injuns. I prefer the term injuns as opposed to terms in Newspeak, PC or politically correct terms such as “Native Americans” or whatever. Anyone born in the U.S. could claim to be “native American,” but then comes that issue of capitalization of the “N” in native. Since many folks don’t even speak properly, let alone know how to write a complete sentence, much less worry about punctuation, capitalization, and other petty issues, I prefer to stick with a word everyone can understand. Since I am an injun, I will use it. If you take offence, great. Offend yourself all you want.
