"Indian" or "Native American"?

[earthw7]

I guess that is the point each person goes by the name of their people or some take the general name like Indian-American Indian-Native American-Native-First people-aborginial. today at the state captial it was a discussion again. The white people tend to want a label for us. Even at that we could not decide because of the mixture of ages.
The older ones were comfortable with Indian the younger were not, some just wanted their nations but when you have many bands and four different nations in the room you have conflict. I think we decided on Native people of the Lakota-Dakota-Nakota Nations.