英语词汇native american的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Native American. In the last decade Native American has been much used as a synonym for Indian, American Indian, or Amerindian. It is preferred by some, though far from all, “abo- riginal people of the Western Hemisphere.” Indian itself is of course a misnomer used since Columbus, believing he had found India on his first voyage, applied the name to the people he found living in the Americas. A Native American, however, can be anyone born in America, and the first people known to have settled in America weren’t Native Americans, they were Asians who crossed the Bering Strait sometime during the late glacial epoch. The term Native American was first applied not to Amerindians but to white Anglo-Saxon Protestants in about 1837 when the Native American Association was formed as an anti-Catholic and antiforeign movement. Thus, though the term Native American does avoid offensive stereotypes associated with the word “Indian” throughout American history, it has a certain negative connotation of its own. See first nations.

词汇	native american
词源	Native American. In the last decade Native American has been much used as a synonym for Indian, American Indian, or Amerindian. It is preferred by some, though far from all, “abo- riginal people of the Western Hemisphere.” Indian itself is of course a misnomer used since Columbus, believing he had found India on his first voyage, applied the name to the people he found living in the Americas. A Native American, however, can be anyone born in America, and the first people known to have settled in America weren’t Native Americans, they were Asians who crossed the Bering Strait sometime during the late glacial epoch. The term Native American was first applied not to Amerindians but to white Anglo-Saxon Protestants in about 1837 when the Native American Association was formed as an anti-Catholic and antiforeign movement. Thus, though the term Native American does avoid offensive stereotypes associated with the word “Indian” throughout American history, it has a certain negative connotation of its own. See first nations.
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