Columbus came up with this misrepresentation of Native Americans when he discovered the Bahamas.
If you are from India you are called Indian.
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Christopher Colubus did. He named them Indians because he was trying to sail around the world to India, and was not expecting America. Therefore, when he found America was inhabited, he called the residents of America Indians, because he thought he reached India.
No; they were called that by European explorers who believed they had sailed west all the way to India.
If you are from India you are called Indian.
The citizens of India are called as Indians.
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India that's why they're called Indians
When Christopher Columbus landed in America he thought he was in India so he called the people Indians.
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They are called Indians.
India citizens are 'Indians'. But since the aboriginal Americans were mistakenly called Indians, too, many now refer to India citizens as, "East Indians."
because Indians are people from India and it is completely different from native american
Columbus called them indians because he thought he was in India.
They live in India. Aboriginals in North America are called Indians because some of the first Europeans had thought they had reached India.
They live in India. Aboriginals in North America are called Indians because some of the first Europeans had thought they had reached India.