American Aboriginal Indigenous Identification

This video is about American Aboriginal Indigenous Identification. Speaking as an Aboriginal, Indigenous, and Native American, where in reality, we had a multitude of indigenous languages, and dialects that were wiped out by European colonizers; and replaced with English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French, etc. In our numerous indigenous tongues; we did not identify ourselves as "Indian".

Etymology:

Indian (adj., n.)
"inhabit of India or South Asia; pertaining to India," c. 1300 (noun and adjective), from Late Latin indianus, from India (see India). Applied to the aboriginal native inhabitants of the Americas from at least 1553 as a noun (1610s as an adjective), reflecting Spanish and Portuguese use, on the mistaken notion that America was the eastern end of Asia (it was also used occasionally 18c.-19c. of inhabitants of the Philippines and indigenous peoples of Australia and New Zealand). The Old English adjective was Indisc, and Indish (adj.) was common in 16c.

Etymology of Aboriginal (adj.) First, earliest, existing from the beginning, especially in reference to inhabitants of lands colonized by Europeans, from aborigines (see aborigine) + -al

Etymology of Aborigine (n.) Living sentient being, animal, or plant that has been in a land or region from earliest times.

Etymology of Native (adj.) Natural, inborn, hereditary, connected with something in a natural way.