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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In what we now call North Dakota.
The natives Columbus encountered in Hispaniola were the Taíno people.
He originally thought he found a route to India and these were its natives.
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he enslaved or killed them
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Oh, dude, Columbus called the natives he met "Indians" because he thought he had reached the East Indies when he actually landed in the Americas. So, like, he was totally off by, like, a whole continent. Classic Columbus, am I right?
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")
Christopher Columbus named the Natives of America Indians. Christopher Columbus gave this name because he thought he was near the Indian Ocean and the people were Indians.
Meet the Natives - 2007 is rated/received certificates of: Australia:PG
he enslaved or killed them