Did indians from North America originally come from the country of India?

Question

If they did not, then why are indians in the Americas called the same thing as the people from India?

Answer 1

The early explorers like Columbus were looking for a passage to India. When they landed in the New World, they thought that they were in India for a while, and the inhabitants were called "Indians". The is why Native Americans hate the term. As I understand it, Native Americans are thought to have crossed the frozen Bering straight from Siberia during an ice age.

Answer 2

No Native Americans are not from India. Christopher Columbus thought he was in India when he really was in North America. He and his crew began calling Native Americans Indians.

Answer 3

When Columbus discovered America. He was trying to find a quicker way to sail to India. When he landed here, he called the natives living here Indians assuming that they were actually India natives. After he realized that he discovered the new world, the previous name for the natives still stood.

Answer 4

yes., "indians" from north america originally came from india. They are now called Indo-american, or indo-canadian. Some people mistakenly call the aboriginal people indians, but there is no connection.

Answer 5

because Columbus was looking for India when he found the new world, but he landed here instead and when he saw the indigenous people he called them Indians. they name has just stuck over the years.

Answer 6

no. Indian is a misnomer. Columbus thought he reached India.

Answer 7

because Columbus though at first he stoped at the seashores of India.

Answer 8

my understanding is that they came from china or mongolia croosed the bering straits say 10.0000 years ago