He encountered Native Americans, he believed he had arrived at India so he called them indians.
Columbus called the Native Americans Indians, because he thought he was in India when he arrived in America. The name stuck, and we still call them Indians today.
Indians (Apex)
Oh, dude, Columbus thought he landed in India when he actually stumbled upon the Americas. So, like, he just called the indigenous people he encountered "Indians" because he was like, "Oh, these must be the Indians I've been looking for." It was a classic case of mistaken identity, you know?
He originally thought he found a route to India and these were its natives.
He encountered Native Americans, he believed he had arrived at India so he called them indians.
He encountered Native Americans, he believed he had arrived at India so he called them indians.
Native Americans in S. America and N. America including Central America, in India we just call them Indians. We call Native Americans indians because columbus made the critical mistake of thinking he landed on the sub-continent of India for a new spice trade with the Indians and called them natives "Indians" due to this mistake.
Columbus called the Native Americans Indians, because he thought he was in India when he arrived in America. The name stuck, and we still call them Indians today.
Indians (Apex)
Oh, dude, Columbus thought he landed in India when he actually stumbled upon the Americas. So, like, he just called the indigenous people he encountered "Indians" because he was like, "Oh, these must be the Indians I've been looking for." It was a classic case of mistaken identity, you know?
Indians (Apex)
Indians (Apex)
He originally thought he found a route to India and these were its natives.
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")
Because there are people who are idiots and don't know this and continually misuse the term Indian when 'Indian' refers to people from the country of India not the indigenous people of North America who are just Native Americans not Indians.
They call white people "white" in their native language.