When you're talking about more than one tribal nation, it's indigenous peoples. There's an s at the end. That s is very important.
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When we talk about one specific group of indigenous people, we're talking about a people with a shared language, culture, political system.
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But when we talk about vast groups of indigenous peoples, we're talking about different languages, cultures, political systems.
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You would never say "North American nation" to refer to Canada, US, and Mexico. You say nations, with an s at the end. It's important.
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As an indigenous person, it's important to me that we not collapse all indigenous peoples into one. It's like pretty basic common decency.
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I had this conversation about indigenous peoples with an s at the end with the all-white editors and writers at my last job like ten times.
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I'm not sure what I expected after the third time. Being that they're journalists, I supposed they would at least care about proper grammar.
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It's especially ironic: English isn't my first language, editors at my last job would sometimes poke fun at my English/say it wasn't good.
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Anyway, I saw an RT from my last job. Sure enough, they went with "indigenous people" in a headline. Might as well read: "we dgaf."
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