While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Amerind. A word composed of the first syllables of
"American Indian," suggested in 1899 by an American lexicographer as a
substitute for the inappropriate terms used to designate the race of man
inhabiting the New World before its occupancy by Europeans. The convenience of
such derivatives as Amerindic, Amerindize, Amerindian, proto-Amerind,
pre-Amerindic, pseudo-Amerind, etc., argues in favor of the new word. The
introduction of "Amerind" was urged by the late Maj. J. W. Powell, and it has
the support of several anthropologists. A plea by Dr W J McGee for its general
adoption appeared in 1900 in the Journal of the Anthropological Institute of
Great Britain. The use of "Amerind" at the International Congress of
Americanists in New York, Oct., 1902, occasioned a discussion (Science, n.
s., xvi, 892, 1902) in which it was supported by some and attacked by
others. The name, nevertheless, has found its way into both scientific and
popular literature. (A. F. C. )
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
