I like the term Aboriginal American. Because American Indian is technically a native of overseas India that migrated here. I know certain of those. They're mistaken for Pakistanis. There IS a difference, people. Also what about Leif Ericson , a true Viking who discovered terre incognito 500 years before Columbus and his failed voyages. He claimed terre incognito for the Spanish crown indeed, but he didn't know anything of Leif Ericson until his trial in Madrid. Then those 2 words brought everything to light. Leif Ericson was real and he was a farce. The first European on the mainland was VESPUCCI. Whitman Mayo got that one right on the social security mr haystacks episode of Sanford and son. So don't believe the history book is infallible. It is errant. It is man seeking man