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Why were American Indians called Indians, since they were not from India but from America?

Posted - November 14, 2016
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  • 5354
    According to the 'grade school' history I was taught, it was because Columbus thought he had arrived in India and thought that they really were Indians.
      November 14, 2016 7:53 PM MST
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  • 13395
    Good thing he didn't think that he arrived in Turkey. 
      November 14, 2016 8:10 PM MST
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  • 5451
    He was in the Bahamas but he thought he was in the East Indies so he called them Indians and I guess Indian just kind of stuck for the original people who lived in the Americas.

    He got just a little bit lost on that trip.
      November 14, 2016 8:47 PM MST
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  • He was using the mark 1 Apple maps ... The rest as they say is history
      November 14, 2016 10:31 PM MST
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  • He was using the mark 1 Apple maps ... The rest as they say is history
      November 14, 2016 10:32 PM MST
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