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A lot of indigenous in Australia have adopted "Country" - there's small c country, which is the standard geographical meaning eg: Australia as a whole, then there's big C Country, which basically means "this place where we have gathered for this occasion" (hence Welcome to Country, which has the bonus of making dickhead recidivists foam at the mouth and fall over themselves demonstrating their own poor literacy skills)

Turtle island is the indigenous name for the whole of the continent though. Similar to how they already call themselves America I guess lol.

Maybe Turtle-Head Island.

YES! - I love that idea too! 👌✅🤗

That's not the US though

Any pointer to an audio-file for that phrase?

This is exactly the type of answer I was hoping to see a lot more of. Stuff actually in native language.

While as an American (the continent) I find that annoying, their country name IS America. For example, these are some other countries full names:

• Republic of the United States of Brazil (until 1930, now it's Federative Republic of Brazil)
• Kingdom of Spain
• Argentine Republic
• United States of Venezuela
• Oriental Republic of Uruguay

Etc, a lot of countries have a long name that explains what type of government they run and then the actual name of the country, the United States of Venezuela is a country named Venezuela that was formed by a coalition of states, I know nothing of Venezuela but because of its name I can imagine states have some autonomy in their ruling. And similarly United States of America is a country named America that was formed by a coalition of states, they just decided to name their country after the continent they're in making life difficult for the future generations.

Wouldn’t it be poetic if the rest of the countries on these continents ‘maliciously complied’ by going all-in adopting the term “American”?

“American tacos” and “American Cerveza” sold with the Mexican flag on it, “American bacon”, “American Whiskey” and “American maple syrup” with the Canadian flag, etc.

Leave the population of USA orphaned without a collective name for themselves.

Yes but to play devil's advocate, no other country uses "America" in their name and the word is synonymous with the USA in English.

There are waaaaay more tribes than that.

So convenient that the Pomo and Chumash kept such strict linear borders we still use them for California to this day.

That doesn't really narrow it down.

That is an indigenous word.

Not true

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abya_Yala was pre-columbian

*Corporate Kingdom Of States

The Of is capitalised. Very important

Sponsored by…?

Canadas butt

I really wish there had been more serious answers, I think it's an interesting one.

Or not the same joke over and over again