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It really depends on what the individual tribal members feel works best for them. The biggest US based Native American news outlet is Indian Country Media. Their reporters did a series of interviews with prominent Native people about what they prefer. I have links below. They are worth reading, if only to get a sense of where the discussion is today and the diversity of opinion. I think people should be able to say what they prefer.There is not and never has been “one” Native American people. There are hundreds of cultures and languages and each has its own history. Each generation is different as well. Politics vary greatly. And now a large majority of Native people live in urban or suburban metropolitan areas. That was not the case in 1950.Also, each has a different history of contact and conflict with the colonial and then US governments. Some cultures had first contact with Europeans in the early 1500s. Some did not have any or no major contact until after the mid 1800s. For example, in Barrow Alaska the first contact with Iñupiaq was with two British men in 1826. For inland areas it was later. First contact in Newfoundland was in 1497. That is a difference of 326 years! Even the British culture of those two times was vastly different.Some Native people’s family members were forced into boarding schools where culture and language were strongly suppressed. Some did not. Some lost all or most of their land. A few have reservations as big as some states. Some are heavily involved with Pan-Indian culture and politics and religion. Some are very assimilated into American European derived culture. Some are very traditional and only relate to their own tribe.All these things and more affect their views on this issue.“ A 1995 Census Bureau survey that asked indigenous Americans their preferences for names (the last such survey done by the bureau) found that 49 percent preferred the term Indian, 37 percent Native American, and 3.6 percent "some other name." About 5 percent expressed no preference.”“Unlike Negro, which was quickly stigmatized once black became preferred, Indian never fell out of favor with a large segment of the American population." —American Heritage Book of English Usage, published in 2000.As a matter of course, the term First Nations is only used in Canada. That is a relatively recent change and some still use Indian. Welcome to First Nations Development Institute It is part of the same sort of movements that led to Native American being used in the US. People also use Aboriginal Peoples there, as in the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network-APTN. And The Aboriginal Multi-Media Society Our Story . And they do not use Native American there.Tribal people in countries other than the US are not called Native American. In Mexico, people obviously use Spanish terms but “Native American” is never used to refer to indigenous tribal people in Mexico or Central or South American. Indigenous or Native Mexicans is used as in CONSEJO INDíGENA POPULAR DE OAXACA "RICARDO FLORES MAGÓN" CIPO-RFM , or Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas. or Inicio - Congreso Nacional Indígena or The Unión de Comunidades Indígenas Huicholas de Jalisco (UCIHJ). Sometimes Mexicanos nativo americanos is used, but not as often.“Native American” is an American term with an American history and politics around it. Some Anglo Americans who do not know that history are confused and think the term was imposed on Native people. It was not. It arises from the same sort of Civil Rights movements that other ethnic groups in America had in the 1960s and 1970s. Native people in America were the people who pushed for the change in terminology. That is true even though some Native people don’t like the term. It comes out of groups of Native people who were working for civil rights, treaty and land rights, and justice.One strange little note, the term Native American has a weird older life that existed in the mid 19th century America. It was a xenophobic, white/WASP nationalist, anti immigrant, anti Catholic political party and movement. The Native American Party was renamed the American Party in 1855 and was commonly known as the Know Nothing Party.In any case, there are many different preferences for different Native people in different places, tribes, generation and personal experience. Some people still prefer Indian or “American Indian”. Others like Native, Native American, Native Peoples, Indigenous. Others only want to use their particular tribal name.Some examples fo Native organizations that use “Indian” are these. The political group AIM, and the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) Home | NCAI uses “Indian”. So does the American Indian College Fund. The American Indian College Fund | Education is the Answer The Indian Health Service uses it. And the National Museum of the American Indian uses it. And the Home > Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA). And Indian Country Today - IndianCountryToday.com . And the news outlet https://indianz.com/ There is also the American Indian Business Leaders, American Indian Higher Education Consortium, American Indian Society https://aisdc.org/, Indian Land Tenure Foundation ILTF, the American Indian Center of Chicago, American Indian Business Leaders (AIBL), Association of American Indian Affairs, National Alaska Native American Indian Nurses Association (NANAINA), National Indian Child Care Association, The American Indian Library Association (AILA). Except for IHS, these are all Native run organizations.Others use the term Native or Native American. Some examples are: Native News Online -celebrating Native voices, American Indian News”. And National Native News - News for All Americans. Or The Center for Native American Youth, National Native American Bar Association, National Native American EMS Association NNAEMSA Conference, Native American Journalists Association, Alaska Federation of Natives, the NAVF Native American Venture Fund, Native American Art Council, Native American Capital (NAC), Native American Rights Fund, Native America Today | Native American News , Native American Times .Here are some good interviews with Native leaders about their tribal identity:Meet Native AmericaSome prefer Indigenous, as in; The Center for Indigenous Law, Governance & Citizenship. Some prefer First Peoples -Home , The Native American and Indigenous Studies Association https://www.naisa.org/. Longhouse Media-an Indigenous media arts organization About Us, Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN). Some use a number of terms at once: Native, Aboriginal, and Indigenous Coalition (NAIC) . A few use First Americans First Americans and Entertainment Industry - firstamericans.org.I would say that for many people today, there prefer the actual name of their tribe. Just as people in Switzerland say they are Swiss and not often European or Eurasian. In areas where there are many large tribes, at times people have a strong identity to there tribe in opposition to others. For example in the SW, to be Zuni is very different than being Havasupai, or Navajo, or Apache, or Tohono O’odham.Here are some of the interviews with people. Read them. For many people what they prefer really depends on the setting.“We know there is not one simple or singular answer. What we can all agree upon is to reject pejorative references to Native people (e.g. “redskins,” “squaw,” “savages,” etc.).”—Amanda Blackhorse.Here are some samples:“I refer to myself as Kiowa. Depending on the setting it may be appropriate to refer more broadly to the term of ‘American Indians,’ but it is also important for non-Natives to refer to me by my tribe rather than one of the umbrella terms because it is respectful and accurate.”-Courtney Tsotigh-Yarholar“If you ask 10 different people you will get 10 different answers…. In what I believe in how I was raised, I like to refer to myself as Sicangu Lakota….. he feels the term ‘indigenous’ is an acceptable blanket statement of our people.”—Frank Waln“When she introduces herself to other Natives she will introduce herself in her Diné clans first, and then say she is of the Navajo tribe. She says that when she is talking to non-Natives she does not say her clans, but she will say she is Native American and then say she is Navajo.”—Kiarra Spottsville“I always say ‘Native,’ and I do that as a conscious choice because we are Native to this land before it was the U.S. The name ‘American’ is a construct of our current state. We’re also Americans, but our indigeneity pre-dates that.”-Dyani White Hawk“I prefer indigenous, but I am comfortable with ‘Native American’ or ‘American Indian’. The reason I prefer indigenous is because being indigenous means you are of a place, one place on earth, which is unique to you. It identifies our peoples well because we referred to ourselves as from a place or location.”—Willow Abrahamson“Debbie says she prefers to call herself, “Diné.” Debbie says her views of how to identify and refer to herself evolved throughout her lifetime. Born in the 1970s, the common term was ‘Navajo’ and this influenced her. She explored the meaning of being Navajo or Diné in her adolescence through the traditional rite of passage for young women, the kinaaldá ceremony. She’s also influenced by her grandparents who emphasized, “You are of the people. Nothing less, nothing more.” In college Debbie grappled with names such as American Indian or Indian but she said these terms are complex and she feels most comfortable with identifying as a Diné woman.”—-Debbie Nez-Manuel (Diné) from Klagetoh, Arizona. She’s Tséńjíkiní, born for the Tse’nabah ł nii; her maternal grandfather is Tsi’najinnii and her paternal grandfather is from Tábaahá.“That’s easy, I’m Osage or Wazhazhi”. When he meets new people, he will introduce himself as this and people will often look at him confused because they don’t know what Osage or Wazhazhi is. He said, “It’s not my fault people don’t know what Native tribes are, or that Native American’s exist”. He believes in Native nationalism and that Native people should call themselves by their traditional names or in their own languages and not falter to societal pressures to identify as a homogenous group.—Ryan Red Corn"I abhor the term Native American,"— Lakota activist Russell Means. From his 1998 essay "I Am An American Indian, Not a Native American!"Blackhorse: Native American? American Indian? Nope. - IndianCountryToday.comBlackhorse: ‘Native American’ or ‘American Indian’? 5 More Native Voices Respond - IndianCountryToday.comBlackhorse: Do You Prefer ‘Native American’ or ‘American Indian’? - IndianCountryToday.com"American Indian" or "Native American"?

THIS is a response to another poster from the Mid-West who is grossly In-competent in answering questions about Native American’s under Federal and Civilian/Public laws.The “problem” with replies from SOME Civilian cops, especially from the Mid-West, and who have never set a Hoof on any of the 560 + Native American Tribal Lands, is that THEY are severely Miss-Informed and IN-correct.Being from New Mexico, which has Apache band’s, 19 Pueblo’s, and Navajo Checkerboard Chapters > > all Tribal Nations, and having worked on many Other Reservations across the Country, as a Locum Tenens Provider … I do know this for a fact, that :All Tribal Nation Enrolled members are Subject to both Tribal Nation Law’s and Regulations, AND, outside of the Reservation Boundaries, are Subject to all applicable Civilian State/County/City Public Law’s and Regulations, as any other American citizen.ALL Federally-recognized Reservations, and/or, designated Tribal Lands, Parcels, Properties, are regarded as holding a ‘Federal Status”.All Tribal Police - are Federal Law Enforcement agencies, within the Reservation Boundaries.Civilian law enforcement - do Not have any Jurisdiction (Federal), on any Tribal Reservation, UNLESS, a Special Order / Compact Agreement has been Approved, between the specific Public LE agency, the Native American Tribal Council & the BIA, And, has been Certified, UNDER Special Directives, for specific Term limits.For example - some Native American Tribal Nations, are so SMALL in Population and Reservation Land Mass, that they MAY Not have any Service Infrastructure in place, i.e., EMS, Fire, & Police.The “De facto” Criminal Investigative Body for all Tribal Nations - is therefore, the FBI, on all or most Reservations.All Tribal Court Judges - are considered to have a Federal Status, Unless, noted otherwise.… Cheyenne_River Tribal Police

Both terms are used in the Native community. Some people prefer one, and some the other. Some people still prefer Indian or “American Indian”, others like Native, Native American, Native Peoples, Indigenous, or their particular tribal name. The term “Indian Country” is common for Native people in places where there are a large number of Natives and or reservations.“Native American” is an American term with an American history and politics around it. It arises from the same sort of Civil Rights movements that other ethnic groups in America had in the 1960s and 1970s. Some in the “Red Power” movement wanted this term. Others, like those in AIM, never liked it. In about the early 1980s it was common enough and Native people had pushed enough that it was put into style manuals.One of the biggest Native news media sources is Indian Country Today Indian Country Today - IndianCountryToday.com . The political group AIM uses it. Also the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) Home | NCAI uses this use Indian. So does the American Indian College Fund. The American Indian College Fund | Education is the Answer The Indian Health Service uses it. And the National Museum of the American Indian uses it. And the Home > Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA).And there is also the news outlet https://indianz.com/ . There is also the American Indian Business Leaders, American Indian Higher Education Consortium, American Indian Society https://aisdc.org/, Indian Land Tenure Foundation ILTF, the American Indian Center of Chicago, American Indian Business Leaders (AIBL), Association of American Indian Affairs, National Alaska Native American Indian Nurses Association (NANAINA), National Indian Child Care Association, The American Indian Library Association (AILA). Except for IHS, these are all Native run organizations.Others organizations use the term Native, or Native American. An example is: Native News Online -celebrating Native voices, American Indian News”. And National Native News - News for All Americans. Or The Center for Native American Youth, National Native American Bar Association, National Native American EMS Association NNAEMSA Conference, Native American Journalists Association, Alaska Federation of Natives, the NAVF Native American Venture Fund, Native American Art Council, Native American Capital (NAC), Native American Rights Fund, Native America Today | Native American News , Native American Times .Some Native publications use both. Here is a 2018 article from Indian Country Today that is titled “Seven election lessons from Indian Country”.Here is the first part:“At the ballot box this really was the Year of Native Women #SheRepresentsSo much history was made this Election Day and it really was the year of the Native woman.The first two Native American women in Congress, Representatives-elect Deb Haaland, New Mexico, and Sharice Davids, Kansas. Haaland is Laguna Pueblo and Davids is Ho Chunk and both are Democrats. The first Native woman elected lieutenant governor of a state, Peggy Flanagan of Minnesota. She is White Earth Nation and on the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party ticket.Arizona tripled the number of Native representation in its state Senate. Senators Jamescita Peshlakai, Navajo; Victoria Steele, Seneca; and Mary Ann Gonzales, Pascua Yaqui, and enough members to caucus. All three are Democrats.There were at least 28 Native women elected to offices ranging from state legislature to Congress, nearly half of the 58 seats won by tribal citizens.”Seven election lessons from Indian Country - IndianCountryToday.comTo me, it seems that what is preferred really depends on the generation, part of the country, level of activism, urban vs reservation, and tribal membership.This is a little old, however it is similar today:“A 1995 Census Bureau survey that asked indigenous Americans their preferences for names (the last such survey done by the bureau) found that 49 percent preferred the term Indian, 37 percent Native American, and 3.6 percent "some other name." About 5 percent expressed no preference.”I would say that for many Native people today, they prefer the actual name of their tribe. Just as people in Switzerland say they are Swiss and not as often say European or Eurasian. In areas where there are many large tribes, at times people have a strong identity to their tribe in opposition to others. For example in the SW to be Zuni is very different than being Havasupai or Navajo or Apache or Tohono O’odham.This t-shirt is a bit old, as there are now 573 tribal governments, but the point is the same.What follows are quotes from the the journalism work of Amanda Blackhorse (Navajo). She interviewed different Native people about what term they prefer.Here are some of the interviews with people. For many people what they prefer really depends on the setting.“We know there is not one simple or singular answer. What we can all agree upon is to reject pejorative references to Native people (e.g. “redskins,” “squaw,” “savages,” etc.).” —Amanda Blackhorse.Here are some samples:“I refer to myself as Kiowa. Depending on the setting it may be appropriate to refer more broadly to the term of ‘American Indians,’ but it is also important for non-Natives to refer to me by my tribe rather than one of the umbrella terms because it is respectful and accurate.” -Courtney Tsotigh-Yarholar“If you ask 10 different people you will get 10 different answers…. In what I believe in how I was raised, I like to refer to myself as Sicangu Lakota….. he feels the term ‘indigenous’ is an acceptable blanket statement of our people.” —Frank Waln“When she introduces herself to other Natives she will introduce herself in her Diné clans first, and then say she is of the Navajo tribe. She says that when she is talking to non-Natives she does not say her clans, but she will say she is Native American and then say she is Navajo.” —Kiarra Spottsville“I always say ‘Native,’ and I do that as a conscious choice because we are Native to this land before it was the U.S. The name ‘American’ is a construct of our current state. We’re also Americans, but our indigeneity pre-dates that.” -Dyani White Hawk“I prefer indigenous, but I am comfortable with ‘Native American’ or ‘American Indian’. The reason I prefer indigenous is because being indigenous means you are of a place, one place on earth, which is unique to you. It identifies our peoples well because we referred to ourselves as from a place or location.” —Willow Abrahamson“Debbie says she prefers to call herself, “Diné.” Debbie says her views of how to identify and refer to herself evolved throughout her lifetime. Born in the 1970s, the common term was ‘Navajo’ and this influenced her. She explored the meaning of being Navajo or Diné in her adolescence through the traditional rite of passage for young women, the kinaaldá ceremony. She’s also influenced by her grandparents who emphasized, “You are of the people. Nothing less, nothing more.” In college Debbie grappled with names such as American Indian or Indian but she said these terms are complex and she feels most comfortable with identifying as a Diné woman.”—-Debbie Nez-Manuel (Diné) from Klagetoh, Arizona. She’s Tséńjíkiní, born for the Tse’nabah ł nii; her maternal grandfather is Tsi’najinnii and her paternal grandfather is from Tábaahá. (this is the normal traditional manner in which to introduce oneself in Navajo)“That’s easy, I’m Osage or Wazhazhi”. When he meets new people, he will introduce himself as this and people will often look at him confused because they don’t know what Osage or Wazhazhi is. He said, “It’s not my fault people don’t know what Native tribes are, or that Native American’s exist”. He believes in Native nationalism and that Native people should call themselves by their traditional names or in their own languages and not falter to societal pressures to identify as a homogenous group.—Ryan Red Corn"I abhor the term Native American," — Lakota activist Russell Means. From his 1998 essay "I Am An American Indian, Not a Native American!"Blackhorse: Native American? American Indian? Nope. - IndianCountryToday.comBlackhorse: ‘Native American’ or ‘American Indian’? 5 More Native Voices Respond - IndianCountryToday.comBlackhorse: Do You Prefer ‘Native American’ or ‘American Indian’? - IndianCountryToday.com"American Indian" or "Native American"?