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- From: gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us (Gary S. Trujillo)
- Subject: Re: soc.culture.native newsgroup charter
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.163655.15415@gnosys.svle.ma.us>
- References: <9301190301.AA25895@crux2.cit.cornell.edu> <1993Jan22.200348.9497@gnosys.svle.ma.us> <pbl3sq+@rpi.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 16:36:55 GMT
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- In <pbl3sq+@rpi.edu> speights@iear.arts.rpi.edu (Arlen Speights) writes:
-
- > I think the article is particularly useful to our charter, but in the
- > interest of keeping the charter under a gigabyte, we'd have to be
- > slective about paraphrasing...
-
- > I think it would be better like this:
-
- > ..."native is considered roughly synonymous with "aboriginal" or
- > "indigenous" -- all terms that designate the existing descendents
- > of the peoples who inhabited the present territory of a country
- > at the time when persons of a different culture or ethnic origin
- > colonized that country, and who today live more in conformity with
- ^^^^^^^
- > their particular social, economic and cultural customs and traditions
- > than with the institutions of the country of which they now form a part..."
- ^^^^^^^
-
- I can accept this paraphrased form of the text Dr. Hardison has offered,
- but I feel that at least the first use of the word "country" marked above
- should be replaced with the word "territory," since there was usually no
- pre-existing national government, and since the colonization was of the
- people, not of a government. The second use of the word seems OK to me,
- since a country has come into being and now exists.
-
- > I think this would sufficiently narrow the focus of the group to
- > reduce Unnescessary redundancy, while certainly leaving overlap
- > where it's pertinent to both groups, such as the s.c.wherever groups.
- > IMHO, of course. It also resolves some vagueness that I feel is
- > contained in the "first to inhabit a region;" indigenous peoples
- > often have and do migrate in some cases, it's the contact with the
- > Different culture that creates most of the issues we've seen on
- > alt.native and NativeNet.
-
- Agreed.
-
- Gary
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- Gary S. Trujillo gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us
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