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Let me as an AMER-INDIAN take that one.
(Fyi, I’m NOT a full-blood but rather: English, lowland Scots & Pamunky & one of the few direct living descendants of the real Pocahontas, the youngest daughter of Deep Stream & Little Fawn.= YES, I have both the Church of England records & DNA results to prove my descent. - She was my 13th Grandmother.)
Note: In 2019, there are VERY FEW or NO “full-blood” Pamunkey tribal members left, as our tribe intermarried with Europeans early in the 17th Century.

We AIs generally (at least among the people that I know,) don’t particularly LIKE the title of “Native American”, unless you just mean someone who was born someplace IN the USA, primarily because of the “term confusion” that you mention AND that the term “Native American” was “dreamed up” by the LEFTISTS & “easily offended snowflakes”.
(Most AIs that I know are quite CONSERVATIVE in morals/values/politics.)

You mentioned people from India, too.
(The JOKER in that deck is that IF you choose to trace our DNA back far enough, you will find that our distant AI ancestors started migrating to the Western Hemisphere from the now vanished continent of Berengia about 30,000 years ago & the last migration was probably by boat, perhaps as little as 4-5 centuries ago from eastern Asia.)

For more (should you be interested) on the migrations from Berengia, see the book, AMERICAN DAWN: Toward a Better Understanding of the Roots of the Settlement of the Western Hemisphere.
(The book started out as a PhD dissertation & “reads” like one.)

Therefore, in a sort of a strange way, Christopher Columbus is “sort of correct” that he found “Indians” in the Americas, as the western edge of Berengia was probably about where the current city of Pondicherry, India is now & stretched east to somewhere near the islands of Japan & then east across what is now the Pacific Ocean from about Baja California to near the current OR/WA state line.
(According to some genealogical studies, we AIs have very similar DNA to certain indigenous groups in today’s India & SE Asia.)

Btw, it’s an “inside joke” among numerous AI People that Christopher Columbus was a “PERFECT DIMocRAT”, in that:

When he left Europe he had no idea where he was going.
When he got there he didn’t know where he was.
When he got back, he had no clue where he had been
AND
He did it all with government money.

Yours, TMN78247