This is what
IM2 stated:
IM2 said:
I know what it means and American Indians aren't Indian. Indian is what the white man called them. Nobody cares about the incorrect designations whites have given to others.
As such I had answered to
IM2:
No one calls them Indians - but either Injuins or indigenous people, American Indians or Red Indians.
And no one gives a shit about what they were called 300 or 600 years ago - aside from racist morons like you or
IM2.
Since the "locals" before the Europeans came, didn't even know about the American continents - neither as to where they start nor end - it was the Europeans who had the "privilege" to name these continents. - and the guy who discovered it, aka North-America was a Spaghetti called
Americo Vespucio. As such Columbus's claim as to having discovered India was already rectified in 1499-1501. And they called the Caribbean part the East-Indies and NOT East-India.
And everyone (aside from you) knows that e.g. the Indian Summer, refers to a season in NORTH-AMERICA.
As such the term e.g. North-American Red-Skins is absolutely correct - and has been politically sanitized, to indigenous population of e.g. North-America. Then some Eskimos came up - oh no, we are not related to Red-Skins (we knew that, that's why we called them Eskimos and not Red-Skins) but they feel better being called Inuit, whilst those in Alaska prefer Eskimo - well whatever.
So how do YOU want to be called? aside from moron?
How far do you want to go back? e.g. 30,000 B.C.? - then the "indigenous" wouldn't even be indigenous, but invaders from Siberia/Asia also known as
Clovis people from 15,000 B.C. onward - oh shit man another name made by Europeans.
Or would you prefer to be called an
East-Asian in view of 30,000 B.C. ? Chinese-Mongol American with Feathers, is also okay with me, oh shoot - again European designations.
The e.g. Algonquins didn't know shit about the Incas nor about the Apache. All these civilizations were discovered by Europeans - and hence we named them.
Just like Zulu's didn't know shit about the Ashanti and vice versa - hence we Europeans named them collectively NEGROES and the Arabs named them KAFIRS.