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Windy_Sails t1_j6lml1d wrote

Reply to comment by marmorset in TIL about Kwihnai Tosabitʉ or "White Eagle," a Medicine Man and messiah of the Comanche Native American tribe. Uniting all of the Comanche people and several other groups, he led them to an immediate defeat and was renamed Isatai'i "Wolf's Vulva." by marmorset

Its great how many indigenous names for their own group translate to "people" or "the people". Comes with this implicit meaning that those other groups they're neighbors with are not "people".

"Hey what do you call your tribe?" "People" "And this other tribe we've encountered?" "Not people, enemies."

You end up with a sort of back and forth where tribes who were friendly with colonizers and explorers get to be called "People" and the ones who weren't are recorded for all time as "Assholes".

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marmorset OP t1_j6lr1o9 wrote

Yes, absolutely. People argue that's not what it means, but if you're calling yourselves "People" or "Human Beings," then everyone else are not "People" or "Human Beings" and that's that.

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tanfj t1_j6ohp0i wrote

Yes and we humans named our species " Wise Men"

A better name would have been Pan Narrans, "Storytelling Ape".

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