Why Indians?
When you were very small did you ever say, "But Indians should come from India! How can there be Indians in America?" I did. And I think it’s a quite sensible question. But this is how it was. It all happened through a mistake that Christopher Columbus made. You see, he thought when he looked westward out to sea from Portugal that he could travel on and on over the ocean in that direction until he had covered half the globe-and then, of course, he would find himself in India. He had no idea that there was a great undiscovered continent in between. So that is what he thought had happened when his ships sighted America. "Indians!" he cried when he first saw the natives. "We have come at last to the Indies!" And that is how the groups of islands near the northern coast of South America have become the West Indies.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 24, 8 December 1939, Page 34
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