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West-Indies
1media/West-Indies_thumb.jpg2020-06-22T20:21:13+00:00Saide Singh2a9e06a636eb89311c320b7ffd316e247adb680372Map depicting the West-Indies from the Encyclopedia Britannica.plain2020-06-22T20:21:27+00:00Saide Singh2a9e06a636eb89311c320b7ffd316e247adb6803
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1media/plain-white-background.jpg2020-06-22T20:23:58+00:00Footnotes for “Identity”1plain2020-06-22T20:23:58+00:00
Or is it a term Christopher Columbus coined?: In reference to Christopher Columbus’s colonizing mission of 1492. He landed in the Caribbean, but mistook the idigenous populations for Indian people. As such, he referred to the islands as the “West Indies.”
