What are the red Indian tribes origins?

The term “Red Indians” is an old, British only no longer used and considered insulting term for Native Americans or American Indians or the indigenous people of North America in the area that is now the US. In Canada they are called First Nations. In Mexico Indigenous People. read more

In recent years 'native Americans' has come into use as an alternative name. But it is a misleading phrase - meaning, but failing to say, aboriginal or indigenous Americans. In spite of its quirky origins, American Indians remains the more direct and simple term. read more

Most American Indians are comfortable with Indian, American Indian, and Native American, and the terms are often used interchangeably. The traditional term is reflected in the name chosen for the National Museum of the American Indian, which opened in 2004 on the Mall in Washington, D.C. read more