Advertisement Continue reading the main story“She’s got about as much Indian blood as I have,” Mr. Trump said in March. “It’s as if any person who identifies as native, ‘We’ll just call them Pocahontas,’ ” Ms. Haaland said. At some of his campaign events, Mr. Trump’s supporters chant Indian war cries. “He should use a different rhetoric, and this is an opportunity to help him understand that.”Still, not all Navajos are turned off by Mr. Trump’s tone. For Ms. Haaland, using the term “Pocahontas” is like calling Native Americans “Redskins,” and it suggests that Mr. Trump thinks that all tribes are the same.

Source: New York Times June 17, 2016 16:08 UTC