So how is it that Aboriginal occupants of these two continental landmasses and the various Islands in the area between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean came to be called after the FIRST NAME of an obscure Italian Clerk in the Medici mercantile empire that later became a name on a map that he did not even draw, based on some letters describing voyages he may not have had much to do with? By rights, they and we should be Native Columbians. . . but instead, a Johnny-come-lately, probable FRAUD, got his name put on two sevenths of the world's continents!
Four voyages between 1497 to 1504 to the "indies" were attributed to Vespucci, but it is now thought that only the third voyage in 1501-02 was actually made with him aboard where the mouth of the Amazon was discovered. However, Vespucci was never the leader of any of these voyages. . . and there simply was not enough time for all of them to take place, along with the other events he wrote about in the two letters he supposedly wrote which were attributed to him that resulted in the map Novus Mundi on which the Map maker named the two new continents Amerige after a feminized, Latinized version of Vespucci's first name to spite Columbus who was not considered a popular person at the time, having been arrested and brought back to Spain in chains.
So, perhaps we should be calling the Aboriginal ancestral inhabitants Descendants of Pre-Columbian Continental Occupants? There, I think I've deconstructed the problem and solved it! We simply call them DPCCOs for short!
It’s called America after Americus Vespucci for the same reasons that Maxwell’s Equations are NOT named after their discoverer, Oliver Heaviside. Heaviside wrote the equations, and since he was not college educated, Albert Einstein looked down upon him and named the equations after Maxwell, whose work inspired Heaviside in the first place; they’ve been Maxwell’s Equations ever since. It’s the same for naming our land America instead of Columbia. Columbus was in disfavor and Americus was seen as enlightened.
It can never be changed now, so we live in America.