Why do indians think they were in america first ?

Question

the caveman was here first.

Answer 1

because they occupied this Continent first. caveman!? how funny.

Answer 2

wiki is your friend

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

I cannot be bothered to dignify this with an answer.

Answer 3

and a black man is african american. enough with the pc stuff. why is black derogatory and white isn't? I worked with two "native americans" and they both referred to themselves as indian.

I am not trying to say anything mean about black people but if its alright to call white people white than its alright to call black people black

Answer 4

that's true indians are from india. and they are called native americans. and maybe you should think before you ask.

Answer 5

Cavemen began life in and around the european countries. White people basically evolved from such form.

Fossils of native Americans are the first ones to exist in America. Native American remains are one of the oldest known human remains.

Answer 6

I could get into the whole conversation of Palea and everything but that would take up WAY too much time. Lol, go get another beer and take in your surroundings. You're living, breathing and drinking, fun stuff right there.

-Later Gator-

Answer 7

i agree.  fred flintstone was in no way an indian...

Answer 8

As a native American, yes, I believe we migrated to North America before anyone else.  

Maybe the caveman was an Indian!

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Answer 9

Cavemen lived in Africa first.  Then some moved out towards Europe and Asia.  There were no people in the Americas until Asians started to walk over a land-bridge over what is now a string of Islands in Alaska.  That was just a few thousand years ago.

After those Asians settled all over the Americas, eventually European explorers came around.  They thought they looked like Indians (i.e. people from India), so the name stuck, even though they weren't Indians.

In the U.S. many people call these people "Indians" and "Eskimos", but in Canada we call them "First Nations" and "Inuit" which are more correct.  Together, they can be called "aboriginal", as in the original people to inhabit the land.

Answer 10

They don't think that. ~~~~

They know they where in America first.

Me don't say How, Me say When. OK.

Answer 11

I don't have 15 minutes to save 15%, paleface.  

Answer 12

They make chicken tikka masala. How can you argue with someone that can conjure up something so divine?

Answer 13

They were trained to think they were in America first, but they were not. Scientists have found skulls of white men on the East Coast, dated back before the Indian Tribes, but the tribes in a lawsuit won the right to re-bury the digging site, where this evidence was found.

Right now it is believed that actually Eric the Red's son, Leif Erikson, a viking was the first to set foot on America, in Florida.

Christopher Columbus was not the first European to discover the New World! This commonly held belief is wrong. Columbus didn't reach the New World until 1492, 500 years after Leif Erikson's arrival in 1001 AD.  

Leif Erikson was the first European to set foot in the New World, opening a new land rich with resources for the Vikings to explore. But for some unknown reason, the Vikings only made a few voyages to the New World after Leif. Unfortunately, this caused his discovery to remain unknown to nearly all of Europe, which was in the midst of the Crusades.  

Answer 14

Maybe they were Native American cavemen. And theyre NATIVE AMERICANS not INDIANS. Indians come from India.