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What does the term American Indian Represent? |
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| The word Indian is the term given to the dark-skinned peopleliving
in the Caribbean Islands at the time of discovery by Columbus. It was a
term Europeans applied to the race of indigenous/Native
dark-skinned,curly haried people living in North, Central and South
America. Reference source:The Georgia Studies Book' Our State and the
Nation" 8th grade, published 1998 by The Carl Vinson Insitute of
Goverment. In other words the word Indian has the same meaning as Negro. |
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