Skins getting heat again over name issue

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Originally Posted by BaltimoreSkins

I would say the difference is that Indian and Eskimo where names given to describe people and not the names the people use themselves. These were the names given by European colonizers at the time to describe them. (Blame FrenchSkins people for the term Eskimo)

Actuall the Term Redskin was a term the indians use.


1769: The first unchallenged use of the word “redskin” occurs when a British lieutenant colonel translates a letter from an Indian chief promising safe passage if the officer visited his tribe in the Upper Mississippi Valley.

“I shall be pleased to have you come to speak to me yourself if you pity our women and our children; and, if any redskins do you harm, I shall be able to look out for you even at the peril of my life,” Chief Mosquito said in his letter, according to a 2005 study by Ives Goddard, the Smithsonian’s senior linguist emeritus.