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Indians and IndiansYou don’t have to be a Karl May fan to have heard about Indians, but knowing GermanGerman has one advantage: having two words for two different peoples. ColumbusColumbus thought, according to popular legend, that the inhabitants of AmericaAmerica were those of another continent many thousands of kilometers further westward. The word “IndianIndian” in English still refers both to all those people who originally lived in North America as well as to the inhabitants of a former British colony and now the second most populous country in the world, IndiaIndia, which we’ll be reading about in other contexts later ( 7).