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Appropriate Terms The terms Aboriginal, American People, Indian, Indigenous Peoples, First Nations and Native Americans we originally used when the first settlers arrived to North and South America. The term American Indian was used to refer to native people of the Western Hemisphere and in the name Indian was used when Christopher Columbus thought he had reached the Indies when he was in search of South Asia. In 1507 a German cartographer named Martin Waldeemuller had named the Western Hemisphere as America around 1507. So, the name American Indian took affect to differentiate the people from South Asia. In the United States and Canada in the 1960s the name American Indian was under scrutiny because it was sometimes called racist and so the

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