This is probably a stupid question, but I ask it cause I want to know.?

Question

I know that I live in America, and I thought Indians was Indian Tribes, but after being online I learned that the country India, call themself Indain also, who do you know the differance between them?

Or did all Indians come from the country of India ? I really don't think they did but want to make sure...

How Sorry for the Spelling mistake

Answer 1

How old are you? Asian Indians are from India. Native americans are called "indians" but that is a misnomar. Asian indians are usually dark skinned. Go read a history book or something. Here's a start.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India

Answer 2

If memory serves me right, the main reason Native Americans are also called Indians is due to a mistake made by Christopher Columbus. Christopher Columbus calculated that he could circumnavigate the world and reach India by sailing across the Atlantic ocean instead of sailing around the cape of Good Hope at the bottom of Africa. The purpose of this was to get to India faster and trade goods for spices that would be traded back in Europe, and the profits from this trade route were very high.
His calculations were wrong though, and he thought the world was smaller than it really is. When he finally reached land he thought that he had actually reached India, and called the people he found, the Native Americans, Indians due to his mistake, and the name simply stuck through the centuries.
As to where the Native Americans came from, it is believed that during the ice age there was an ice bridge that connected Russia and Alaska. At first the Native Americans were hunter and gatherers, and followed migrating animals across the ice bridge. By the time the ice age ended, the bridge returned to ocean water and Native Americans established themselves from the Eskimos of Alaska to the Incan and Aztec empires of Latin and South America.
I hope I answered your question for you. I gave the link to Columbus and his theories below, and honestly, if you know the term you are looking up I highly recommend searching wikipedia.org.

Answer 3

Indians from North America are basically the descendants of the natives that lived in North America before Columbus reached the shores. They are known as Native Americans.

The other type of Indians (i.e. the real Indians) are from India. In colloquial and not so politically correct terms, they are "brown" people. Native Americans have features similar to people from South America.

Basically, what happened was that Columbus wanted to find a quick way to reach India by ship for trading, but he got lost and found North America instead. At first, he thought he reached India, so he called the Native Americans "Indians." When he found out he was wrong and he had found a new continent, the term "Indian" was already in use by many people, although it is currently politically incorrect to refer to Native Americans as "Indians."

Answer 4

Wow. ok, Native American are the one you thought were Indians, in the tribes. They were mistakenly called Indians by Christopher Columbus and his crew, who discoved the Americas when searching for another route from Europe to India than going all the way around the southern tip of Africa. They landed thinking they had reached India, and would find lots of gold and silk and other riches. But they discovered a lesser developed people instead, and called them Indians.

Indians are from India, period.

Answer 5

Indian people come from the country India in Europe, you thinking of native Americans which white ppl have named Indians, they are completely different people and anyone can see the differences quite easily...do a search for pictures from India and compare them to native American pictures and you'll see exactly what I mean

Answer 6

Native Americans are the ones who were born in USA and the other Indians are from India.

Answer 7

here's your answer......
the only real indians are from india.

what happened was this : when stupid christopher columbus first arrived to america , he thought he had landed in india (he was an idiot), so he called all the natives here 'indians'.
since then , due to the stupidity of a spanish salilor , all the native tribes from south , central and north america are called indians.
it's funny how an idiot can damage so much history.

Answer 8

BAsically the ones from here are called Native Americans.

When Columbus landed her, he thought he was in India and called the people here Indians. :)

It's ok. It's not a stupid question.

I hope this was helpful. :)

Answer 9

Indians from America are usually referred to as American Indians or native Americans

Answer 10

ok well the indian tribe was named indian becuz Columbus thought he was in India instead of N.America when he was traveling and that's why the tribe poeple are called indians but also the indians in india are supposed to be called indian becuz there from india and so there both indians but different people