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I'm not sure about the ones in Asia, but if you mean the American ones, Christopher Columbus wanted to sail to India by going around the world. He knew the world was round, but not that America was in between, so he tried to go from Europe west to Asia rather than going around the tip of Africa, which has really bad turbulence. When he came to America, he thought he was at India, so he called the natives Indians and returned, telling his sponsors the rulers of Spain that he had went to India. As such, the term 'Indians' for Native Americans stuck in Europe and went west with them when they decided to settle America.
Hopefully this helped =D
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