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Do they call themselves "Indians"?
Many do, yes.
I have a few friends who are Narragansett and they all call themselves Indians
I love the Narragansett
Yep that's the one, I live right near the brewery
According to CGP Grey, yes, they do.
What do you mean they?! /s. Personally I don't like the term, but my status card does say "Indian and northern affairs", but at least if you go to the government site it mentions how "Indian" is not how many indigenous people want to be referred to as. Why do they not change it? Good question, I'd assume legal stuff with the act or whatnot. But at least I prefer indigenous.
I can't say I personally know many Indigenous people, but the few I do would often refer to themselves as "a cherokee" or as part of the insert here tribe. Based on the other comments it seems like that isn't as typical as I thought.
From what I gather, that seems more common in the US. But I don't really know, just got that sense from media and such.
My guess as to why they don’t change it is COBOL
A majority of them I knew growing up in Oklahoma did, but that was in the 90s, I have no idea if that is still a typical thing.
Yeah, the older people still say stuff like "come over here and talk Indian with me". But it seems like most of the younger people will either say their native, or name a specific tribe.
I grew up being told to say "native American", so it really threw me when I went to the Smithsonian recently and saw the "American Indian" museum.
A museum museum would be kind of cool. Just a bunch of VR headsets where you can visit museums that no longer exist.
Nah, this is fake as shit.