Name: 'インディアン'か'ネイティブアメリカン'か？ [Reservations, Part 0] ('Indian' or 'Native American'? [Reservations, Part 0])
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T10:19:18.000Z
Duration: 6 min 47 s
Description: VoiceTubeの動画で発音を聞きながら英語表現を覚えよう！学べる英語：

再帰代名詞

The first people who lived here named themselves.

Across the continent, in hundreds of languages.

The word for people - or the First People - was what they used.

Other people existed, to trade and talk and fight with.

But the continent was vast and travel slow.

There were no horses and wouldn't be for millennia.

Then, from across the sea, came a new other people.

Who brought with them great and terrible things.

They too had a name for themselves in their own language.

But they also brought a name for the First People: Indians.

And you in the future from my present (possibly the far future).

And the word 'Indian' may have just made you uncomfortable.

that causes words to be born and to live and to die.

Long after its first use in the New World,

the early British and American Empires needed a word

to collectively describe the First People.

And 'Indian', despite its confused origins, was that word.

As the Empires expanded, there was terrible conflict.

The First People found themselves decimated and scattered.

Needing to act as one new group to survive.

As the world progressed from horses, to steam, to electricity,

But the First People were now a tiny minority in the land

For comparison, there are about 200 countries in the world.

Within the United States, the reservations number more than 300.

Within and without those areas of special sovereignty,

there are more than 500 federally recognized tribes.

hundreds of different names for different groups is not helpful.

A collective name - one clear in the minds of the majority - is needed.

In the time of Civil Rights, 'American Indians',

was (despite its confused origins) that name.

As I write this script looking at the past,

I will bet that future history will unmake 'Indian'

in favor of 'Native American', or something else.

But here, as part of working on this series,

I've traveled to many reservations to see them

and to talk to the people who live in them.

On reservations, the word 'Indian' is still used

without hesitation or negative connotation.

Used as identity, not universally, but near it.

You, like me, may be surprised to hear that,

Now, as for 'Native American', while preferred by some,

And the only way to explain fully is to pass it on to you.

[Grey takes deep breath] So, the dislike comes from… 'overinclusivity'

what this word was created to communicate.

'Indian' has meant the first people in this part of the world.

Separated at first but thrust into a shared history.

It can include everyone from the top to bottom of two continents.

The histories of North, Central, and South America

are as divergent as the histories of Asia, Europe, and Africa.

To call a person from here, here, or here

a 'Native Afro-Eurasian' would be so over-inclusive

as to make it difficult for that human to strongly

Additionally, it can feel like yet another thing forced from the outside.

Talking to people about this project over the last…

[Grey sighs] Five years… revealed a strong correlation.

The closer a person had ever been to a reservation,