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Indian

This is my theory. Good, old Christopher Columbus thought he was going to sail all the way around the world in 1492 to get to India in order to do business. He "found" what was to be known as the "West Indies" in what was eventually going to be known as "America" in the future. He thought he found India and people for the last 500+ years have been calling Native Americans "Indians" which are people from India. I know this is not exactly a pirated word, but i thought i could get it out there. I just want to add in that "America" is a last name of some Italian map maker, just for fun.

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