My grand father, who was a native preferred to be called by his nation, Comanche. I remember one time I asked him if he was really and Indian, and he said, Indians are from India, I am a Comanche. Also found out after he died that he was only like 1/4 Comanche but he milked the hell out of it because he thought it was cool and he used the persona in WWII, so it stuck.
My grand father, who was a native preferred to be called by his nation, Comanche. I remember one time I asked him if he was really and Indian, and he said, Indians are from India, I am a Comanche. Also found out after he died that he was only like 1/4 Comanche but he milked the hell out of it because he thought it was cool and he used the persona in WWII, so it stuck.
I would take pride in that too, the Comanche were bad motherfuckers. If Lizzie Warren can claim 1/1024, your Grandpa was a Comanche.
That's Comanche. If I'm Scot, Irish, Dutch and German, then any of those can be said on their own too, right? "Oh I'm Irish too."
When I travel to local reservations, they locals call themselves by their tribe.
Like most people on this planet.
They also say "the rez" to refer to where they live.