Alternate name for Native Americans

Anahuacans, anahuacos; anahuac was a name the mexica culture gave to the place they ruled, and (i suppose) it means surrounded by waters, aand the americas are actually surrounded by waters... It may sound unimaginative but it could become a thing specially after the spanish conquest of mexico... Hmm i don't really know :s :'v
 
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Kaze

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Corn-eater.

Most of the tribes use "corn" as a staple crop - most of them have a deity of corn.
 
Corn-eater.

Most of the tribes use "corn" as a staple crop - most of them have a deity of corn.

Which only includes the natives from Central America to the Canadian border, and not the California/PNW Indians. South American Indians ate corn too but it was not as culturally important as quinoa. Cabot or Cartier would not have encountered "corn eaters".

I suppose as a misnomer it isn't as bad as "Indian", but then again, terminology based on the food an ethnic group eats has long been a rich source of slurs (i.e. "mackerel snapper", "kraut", "macaroni eater", "kebab", etc.).

Pre-Columbian Americans is a quite decent and a suitable name.

"American Indian" is rather standard terminology in history/ethnographic texts on the indigenous Americans and is also common amongst indigenous activists (i.e. American Indian Movement).
 
I've got a Muslim-discovered New World where natives of the Americas are sometimes broadly called the al-Garbiyyin, or the Algarvians - that is, the Westerners.
 
Maybe Natams for native americans or Amerinds (American indians) for an older term. Though Amerinds could also be for American indigenous peoples.
 

Kaze

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Or "eagle people" - many natives worship eagles (condors or other large birds of prey) and use their feathers as ornaments.
 
Around the same time as Columbus was doing his thing, the merchants of Bristol were sponsoring expeditions into the the North Atlantic in search of the mythical land of Hy Brasil. If instead of naming their discoveries after their main sponsor, Richard Amerike, they named them after the legend instead then the inhabitants could be called Brasilians.
 
Around the same time as Columbus was doing his thing, the merchants of Bristol were sponsoring expeditions into the the North Atlantic in search of the mythical land of Hy Brasil. If instead of naming their discoveries after their main sponsor, Richard Amerike, they named them after the legend instead then the inhabitants could be called Brasilians.

Reminds me of st Brendan
 
What we always call people who aren't us.

'Them'

If we need to specify which group, we can call them 'them from there.'

If we need another group they can be 'more of them from someplace else'.
 
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