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Canada's Indigenous Peoples Were First Mistakenly Called "Indians" by Christopher

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Canada's indigenous peoples were first mistakenly called "Indians" by Christopher Columbus. What happened to this label?


A) The indigenous maintained their tribal identities and ignored this imposed "Indian" identity.
B) It became a signal of their submission to the colonizers' cultural prerogatives.
C) It has fallen out of use entirely within First Nations communities.
D) It was accepted by the indigenous as their identity as a collective opposition to the European settlers and occupiers.

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