xiv Author's Note
Chippewa). I have used some of the correct names combined with
more familiar usages, such as "Sioux" and "Navajo." Except in ma
terial that is quoted, I don't use the term "tribe." "Community,"
"people," and "nation" are used instead and interchangeably. I also
refrain from using "America" and "American" when referring only
to the United States and its citizens. Those blatantly imperialistic
terms annoy people in the rest of the Western Hemisphere, who are,
after all, also Americans. I use "United States" as a noun and "US"
as an adjective to refer to the country and "US Americans" for its
citizens.