Especially during the era where they used an “s” on the end of the name, and it was still supposed to mean the color. Then their mascot is a tree, adding to the confusion. I think it would have been funny had they actually gone with “Robber Barons” when they ditched “Indians”:
Well, common if those terms are entirely interchangeable, which I would dispute.
For example, if every millisecond my program collected some data in a struct, I wouldn’t hesitate to refer to each instance of the struct as a data point.
I would hesitate to call it a datum though because that seems to have some sort of implication of being indivisible.