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Are American Indians and native Americans the same thing?
No, Native Americans are from tribes like the Cherokees and other tribes. They originated in America. Indians are from the country India, and are a whole other group of people from the Native Americans. The reason why Native Americans are sometimes referred to as Indians is because, when Christopher Columbus was sailing to India, he accidentally ended up in North America where he called all the Native Americans, Indians.
Where there other people besides native Americans when europeans came to America?
If you accept that all "native Americans" are the people called Indians at that time, there were also Inuits and Aleuts, who are racially distinct from native Americans. These people are commonly called Eskimos.
Are Taino Indians Native American?
Yes, all native peoples of the Americas are native Americans.
Are Native Americans and Indians the same thing?
No, Native Americans are from tribes like the Cherokees and other tribes. They originated in America. Indians are from the country India, and are a whole other group of people from the Native Americans. The reason why Native Americans are sometimes referred to as Indians is because, when Christopher Columbus was sailing to India, he accidentally ended up in North America where he called all the Native Americans, Indians.
What Indians live in the tepee?
Native Americans. All type of Native Americans, they most likely used for people who is always on the move.
What is the difference between Hindi and Hindustani?
No. A Hindi is a person who follows Hinduism. An Indian is a person from India. Sometimes Native Americans are even refereed to as Indians, because of when Christopher Columbus was sailing to India he accidentally ended up in America and called all the Native Americans Indians. But, Native Americans are not the same as Indians from the country India. Also Hinduism is a type of religion that people in India follow, and those people are called Hindus.
How did General Chivington classify all American Indians?
He classified all Native Americans as savages.
Did all Native Americans live in teepees?
No. For example the Apache Indians lived in pueblos.
What was tecumsehs goals?
To unite the native Americans
Why do you call Indians Native Americans?
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.
What did Nathaniel bacon do to the Indians while they encounterd Jamestown?
Remove all Native Americans from the Virginia frontier
What did the Sioux indians call there money?
Historically none of the Plains tribes had money. the idea that all native Americans used "wampum" or called money "wampum" is entirely false.
