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Indians. Indians are what the europeans called the natives when they first met in the tundra region Canada.
He originally thought he found a route to India and these were its natives.
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?
Yes and No. SOme of the Natives he encountered were taken as slaves, Others though were treated with respect and even bargained with.
Columbus' first land fall on his first voyage was on the island now called San Salvador in the Bahamas on October 12, 1492. The natives that Columbus met there called the island Guanahani.
AnswerIn the time of Christopher Columbus, it was unthinkable that a person in Western Europe could be other than a devout Catholic. Columbus was motivated by greed and religion in his voyages of discovery. The natives he met were required, on pain of death or slavery, to become Christians.
Columbus believed he had reached the Indies when he arrived in North America, so he called the people he found there "Indians". Though this term has been inaccurate since it was first used, the term "Native American" did not come into use until centuries later.
He called them taino indians because of there disgusting filth.
the first nation people he met was the indies.
Lucayan-Arawak Indians
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.