About a month before I stopped using Facebook I got into an argument with someone on a post about the Iroquois Confederacy. I was (frankly) making some pretty radical statements expressing my view of the history/governmental practices of the early confederacy. The person who replied had no qualms with my viewpoint on the history, just that I used "American Indian" instead of "Native American".

I swear it must have been 25 comments on either side. Trying to explain "First Nations" doesn't necessarily apply when you're talking about discrete political entities and people who were displaced and did a lot of displacing at that point. Trying to explain that "American Indian" is the only ethnic demonym where "American" comes first (as opposed to African American, Asian American, German American...etc), and on and on and on. It's just the accepted standard terminology for scholarship.

On the topic of the above post...I really don't think the Speedy situation and the Washington Redskins are at all similar. I don't think there are many American Indian people who would be clamoring to have the logo/name return if they ever decided to change it. It's always seemed so weird to me that it's so explicitly about skin color, rather than a trait that might be desirable in an athlete (like "Braves" or "Fighting Whatevers"). Oh well.