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Christopher Columbus met the Native Indians when he reached America.
He met the native people of Hispanolia.
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.
yes there were
yes there were
Columbus was a greedy little man who intended to steal any gold he found and to enslave the people he found. He wrote in his diary that the Native Americans he met would make good slaves.
He wrote in his diary that he had met the Native people of Hispanolia and thought they would make good slaves. He wasn't sure they were human and was positive they were inferior.
He wrote in his diary that he had met the Native people of Hispanolia and thought they would make good slaves. He wasn't sure they were human and was positive they were inferior.
Absolutely no native Americans migrated to America. They were already here! They met Columbus!
Columbus called Native Americans Indians. The story is that Columbus thought he had reached India, and Indians would be the native inhabitants. By the time Columbus realized that he was not in India, the name had already stuck.
When they first met, generally, there was a great deal of mistrust of the native by the Europeans. The Indians generally welcomed them, but they were also novel beings that the Indian wanted to get to know. As the Europeans got to know the First Peoples, their disdain grew for the supposedly uncivilized Indians.
In 1942 christopher columbus encountered the taino a tribe of the arawaks