Columbus set off from Europe planning to go to India, but he ended up in America, so he called the Americans 'Indians'!
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The native Americans call the gun a fire stick. It is not funny dude
Columbus went west to go east, but he thought he was in India. He called the people he met "indians". His diary reflects he didn't think much of them and thought they would make good slaves. He mainly wanted them to bring him gold. When one man brought a few nuggets to him Columbus got so mad he cut the man's hands off. Columbus was a greedy man who wanted riches, and power.
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Columbus called Native Americans Indians. The story is that Columbus thought he had reached India, and Indians would be the native inhabitants. By the time Columbus realized that he was not in India, the name had already stuck.
Columbus called the Native Americans Indians, because he thought he was in India when he arrived in America. The name stuck, and we still call them Indians today.
He encountered Native Americans, he believed he had arrived at India so he called them indians.
He encountered Native Americans, he believed he had arrived at India so he called them indians.
Because when Columbus got here, he had the silly notion that he arrived in India, so he called them Indians. We call them the more politically correct, Native Americans, because technically, they are not from India, henceforth no Indians. They were also 'native' to this country which we call America, so they are Native Americans.
Native Americans in S. America and N. America including Central America, in India we just call them Indians. We call Native Americans indians because columbus made the critical mistake of thinking he landed on the sub-continent of India for a new spice trade with the Indians and called them natives "Indians" due to this mistake.
Early explorers called them Indians because when Christopher Columbus discovered America he thought he was in India, therefore comes the term Indians.
we call them Indians but they prefer native Americans
well, you can say either one. i prefer saying native americans,but i also say american indians. The reason why most americans today call them just plain indians is because christipher columbus thought he had sailed to india.
The first person to call Native Americans "Indians" was probably Christopher Columbus or a member of his crew. Remember that for some years after Columbus' landings in the Caribbean, He and the Europeans who followed him thought they had reached "the Indies" ( the region we now call "east Asia")
because Columbus was trying to find a quicker trade rout to india, and when he arived in america he believed that he was in india.
They were commonly referred to as "savages", but in most cases, Indians. The name derives from when Columbus first discovered the New World and thought he had landed in India.