CGP Grey has been doing research for this video for five years. Well, to be honest, that five years of research is most likely going into the series of videos that will be called Reservations, of which this one is the first. Before diving into what he's going to tell us, Grey first wants to established the language used. Therefore, here are 1300 words to explain one word. -via reddit
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I think Indigenous falls into that Overinclusive Category that the video talks about. I've heard First Peoples as the Canadian term for Indigenous populations. Eskimo is not an appropriate term as they prefer either Inuit, Yupik or Inupiat. Eskimo is an Algonquin word that some have interpreted as "eater of raw meat" but that is debatable.
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One word we're hearing more often is 'Indigenous', which is a term from biology, meaning 'found naturally in the particular geographic location'. But it's being used to cover 'Indian' in Canada, and it works for 'Eskimo' as well. And on the evening news, when you hear it about 'black' people in Africa. Useful or not?
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