postindian means A Native American. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 90 out of 100.
Why this word is great
POSTINDIAN — [Noun] An Indigenous person, especially in North America, who consciously exists beyond and critiques the limiting, simulated stereotypes of ‘the Indian’. From the English prefix post- ("after") + Indian, coined by author and scholar Gerald Vizenor as an act of lexical survivance. Unlike “Indian” (a term laden with colonial invention and static, tragic simulations) or “Native American” (a broad, often bureaucratic identifier), the postindian is an active, ironic stance of continuous becoming. It is the sly grin in a portrait that refuses the noble savage pose, the beadwork pattern that contains a line of computer code, and the calm voice in a poem that speaks of ancestors in one line and algorithms in the next—a sovereign act of self-naming that reverberates in the continuous present, refusing to be a ghost in anyone’s narrative.