Jonah: My objection to “Native Americans” is that allocating this

expression to Indians leaves me with no way to say “Americans who were

actually born in the U.S.A.,” as opposed to those Americans like me who

signed up for the project. “Indians” isn’t really very good, though,

either, as you then have to make clear you’re not talking about people from

India. We really have a problem here. “Amerindians” has a clunky,

contrived look about it. “Aborigines” would be fine, except that so many

people would assume you were talking about Australians. Since most

Americans of African ancestry seem not to mind being called “Blacks,” we

could just say “Reds” and “red” (or “Red,” if they prefer)… but then

that’s going to get confusing because people might think we are talking

about communists. We really need someone to invent a word here.