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Originally posted by Optimist Prime
He claimed to be a leader of his people, the Indians, but most Indians call themselves Native American.
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Uh...people from India *are* "Indians".
"Native Americans" are called the misnomer "Indians" because Columbus landed in North America, saw these brown skinned people, thought he was in India, and called them Indians.
Columbus was wrong and off his target by only a few thousand miles.....