`  :We edit conflicted. I was coming here in the hope of getting just such a clarification and offering apologies if I'd misconstrued something. All's well with the world, then. Further comment: ``However, the term Native American may still be used when speaking or writing in English outside of North America``  I'm still not sure what that phrase is doing. ``May`` sounds a little proscriptive, and is it trying to say ``may still be used to refer to Amerinds (for want of a better term) from all over the Americas``?  `