How about indigenous, where's that fall in the ranking system?  I got told off once a long time ago in Canada for using that term, which seemed to me to be pretty safe and neutral.  I didn't like the term "Native" Canadian as to my mind anyone born in the country was a native Canadian.  First Nations seemed to come into vogue about the same time, constitution re-writing/Meach Lake kind time.

I've always been confused by "Asian", particularly the British usage of it.  To me, Asian has always meant East Asian-Chinese, Japanese, etc.  I was extremely confused to hear those from the sub-continent referred to as Asian. What I considered to be Asian were being referred to by the Brits as 'oriental", which surprised me as it is a term that is considered out of vogue and mildly racist in Canada now.