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John Cabot, an Italian explorer sailing under the English flag, is often credited with being one of the first Europeans to reach North America since the Norse expeditions led by Leif Erikson around the year 1000. However, Cabot was not American, as the concept of "America" did not exist in his time. Indigenous peoples had been living in North America long before either Cabot or Erikson arrived, so it is more accurate to say that the first "discoverers" of America were its Indigenous inhabitants.

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