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by flomo 4408 days ago
"American Indian" is the term used by the US government on the census form, so it likely is used in many other surveys that use a similar format. (I don't know how broadly it is seen as an offensive or incorrect term.)

http://www.census.gov/acs/www/Downloads/questionnaires/2014/...

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Wikipedia has a fairly good page on the issue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_name_controvers...