The name “Indians” is a name invented by Christofer Columbus when he thought he had come to
Eastindia but he had come to The Caribbean Island 1492.
He called the inhabitants “Indios” and
although his mistake the heterogeneous American population still...
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The name “Indians” is a name invented by Christofer Columbus when he thought he had come to
Eastindia but he had come to The Caribbean Island 1492.
He called the inhabitants “Indios” and
although his mistake the heterogeneous American population still called “Indians”.
Today the word
“Indians” is considered bad and replaced with “Native Americans”.
The Indians called”red Indians” to
separate the real Indians in India.
Just because they painting their skin red, they been called”red skins” but the word”red skin” is
disparaging now and avoiding.
The Indians skin varying from light yellow to dark brown and it is not
true that all of the Indians are black-haired.
The first Indian who met Columbus was arawaks on Hispaniola.
They was like slaves and 1550
remain just 500 individual and after one century they were extinct.
Natives of America called
“American Indians” but later they started to be called “native Americans”.
Traditionally music
consists of drums and sometimes occurs flute
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