I believe the correct term is "Native American"

The Lelawi Theater in the American Indian museum offers an introductory video titled Who We Are that incorporates sound clips and images of different Indians talking about their ways of life. One of the first lines spoken is “We are not living out an ancient fantasy. This is just how it is.” This line summarizes the museums intended message. Through several exhibitions show casing American Indian centuries old culture and how it relates into contemporary times, the museum really pushes a message of how Indigenous heritage is not just sitting in the archives, its still being lived out.
The museum offers 3 permanent displays, Our Peoples, Our Universes and Our Lives. Our Universes focuses on the ancient knowledge, wisdom and beliefs still being practiced in modern day. In Our People Natives tell their own stories and histories. This exhibit, told by the indigenous people themselves, is opposite of the idea of the narrow ideas and information told for centuries by the white man through text books, movies and media. Our Lives shows eight different tribes explaining how they are still supporting their culture and ideas in the contemporary times or how the Natives are holding on to their Native identity.
Though the museum prides itself on being the first American Indian education facility that works with indigenous people to provide a non-biased and real account of native history and lifestyle, there was a lot of propaganda within the museum. One example of this is in the Our Lives exhibit where the Kumeyaay tribe discusses its casino on their reservation. One tribe member, Nancy, is quoted: “The acorn has been with us for a long time. Our ancestors survived on this resource. Today we have the golden Acorn Casino to reminds us of the past and to provide for the future.” There is a large discussion in the museum about tribal independency through casinos and landfills on reservation land. Though this has worked for some, the percentage of successful Indian Casino’s is extremely smaller then the museum leads one to believe.
Another issue that the museum just flat out ignores is the Indian Rights acts of the late 20th century. Though there is some examination of racism and broken treaties of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, very little is shown about the governments actions from the last few decades including the pressing actuality of reservation life today.
The American Indian Museum educates visitors from far and wide on past Indian culture and pushes forward the documentation of this culture in modern day. Should they, however, only share some of the more attractive aspects of the present-day Indian and ignore the hardships they still attain? The museum only shows an appealing side of the Indian life tourists want to see, not what is one hundred percent reality.