Various oral literary traditions
The native americans smoked cigrate. and you really know what i mean
Columbus was trying to get to India when he ran into North America. He thought that he had arrived in India, so he referred to the Native Americans as Indians. AND, we still refer to them as such.
Columbus didn't land in North America, but if he had he would have found millions of Native Americans living there.
He encountered Native Americans, he believed he had arrived at India so he called them indians.
Native Americans called themselves by their tribe (i.e. Cherokee, Powatan, Lakota, etc.) When Christopher Columbus arrived, he erroneously believed he was in the Indies, so he declared them "Indians".
Native Americans
The native americans smoked cigrate. and you really know what i mean
Columbus was trying to get to India when he ran into North America. He thought that he had arrived in India, so he referred to the Native Americans as Indians. AND, we still refer to them as such.
Columbus didn't land in North America, but if he had he would have found millions of Native Americans living there.
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.
Native Americans called themselves by their tribe (i.e. Cherokee, Powatan, Lakota, etc.) When Christopher Columbus arrived, he erroneously believed he was in the Indies, so he declared them "Indians".
yes there were
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.
yes there were
The research into that question continues and new archaeological finds are constantly adding to our knowledge of the very earliest native Americans. They may have been "here" (wherever that is) for over 40,000 years before Columbus arrived.
no