Wouldn’t Tusken Raider technically be worse though if seen from a politically correct stand point in the SW universe (that’s one of the weirdest and silliest things I’ve written). I mean it has “raider” in the name. At least Sand People is pretty neutral.

As a side note, WEG explained that name by attributing it to an historical event (as far as Tatooine is concerned anyway) where some “Sand People” attacked/raided a human settlement Fort Tusken. I always though that was a clever retcon, but now I’m more curious as to what Lucas was thinking about when he came up with “Tusken”.