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I answered it with the 'straight up' definition, but I think his 'point' which was so cleverly disguised that I MUST have missed it, was that Columbus was off by half a planet when he mis-named the people here 'Indians'. (if that wasn't his point then his point truly did escape me). Most American Indians simply accept that Indian is what they are. It is pretty goofy to be upset about being wrongly called 'Indians' and then substitute that with "Native American" yet another benevolent gifting of title by an early explorer NOT 'native' to this land.
Columbus got lost. He managed to stave off a mutiny. He luckily found the Virgin Islands. Indians are what people from India are called. I interact with a lot more people from India than from a reservation. I don't think it's good when describing an Indian as either the "Woo-woo" (patting hand over mouth) or the the other Indians (points finger to forehead). Native Americans are not from India. They are not Asian. It's not even the same hemisphere. Hell, if it's about the first guy thinking this was India, shouldn't the continents be called North and South India? Why aren't we the United States of Columbia?