Words fail....
Other Indians fear that official federal recognition of the Abenaki will result in them receiving smaller payments from the US government. That's why they created the BS story that "squaw", the Abenaki word for "woman" (and a feminine grammatical part of speech in all Iroquoian languages), meant "whore".
The university crowd did very little research into that matter and ran pall-mall down hill into the swamps of abject ignorance.
Same thing here ~ they've decided "Caucasian" means "white", and that's really, really difficult to 'splain to the folks from the Bangalore Coast!