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When Christopher Columbus landed in the Bahamas, he called the native Arawak people __________.

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He had called them Indians which is where the word Indian originated from, Indian was what he called them because of their similarity to the Indians :)
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Indians, because he was trying to go to India by going west. It did not work, and that's why colonists called Native Americans "Indians".
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