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Indigenous Day Oct 12, 2011

October 12th, 2011 - By j guevara

To kick off ‘Indigenous Day’ lets start with were the word ‘Indian’ came from. Not from some lost mariner who thought he was in India.
In 1492 India was called Hindustan. Columbus, an Italian, in his pidgin Espanol, described them as ‘Ninos los in dias’ Dias meaning god in Spanish. Ninos is children. What he called them were ‘Children of god” And THAT is what Indian means.
It was not until the 18th century when Americans, who to this day, are not known for their linguistic expertise, misconstrued the word to ‘Indians’
Also, for the record, Indians dislike the term ‘Native Americans’. As much as it’s been polluted and desecrated, who’d want to be associated with it?

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