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indigenous naming
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The Hidden Truth Behind Why Are Red Indians Called Red Indians
The irony cuts deep. The very people who were never "red" in the European imagination—whose skin ranged from deep brown to copper to ebony—were saddled with a...
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The Misunderstood Name: Why American Indians Are Called Indians
Columbus’s 1492 voyage to the Caribbean islands—mistakenly believing he had reached the eastern fringes of Asia—set in motion a chain of misnomers that would...