Usonaj indianoj: Malsamoj inter versioj

:''For more detail see, [[Native American name controversy]]''

When [[Christopher Columbus]] arrived in the "[[New World]]", he described the people he encountered as ''Indians'' because he mistakenly believed that he had reached [[India]], the original destination of his voyage. Despite Columbus's mistake, the name ''Indian'' (or ''American Indian'') stuck, and for centuries the native people of the Americas were collectively called ''Indians'' in America, and similar terms in [[Europe]]. The problem with this traditional term is that the peoples of India are, of course, also known as ''Indians''. A usage in British English was to refer to natives of North America as 'Red Indians', though this is now an old fashioned usage and considered insulting.

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