what is red indians lifestyle??
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The term “Red Indians” is an old, British only term, and no longer. It is considered insulting term for Native Americans or American Indians or the indigenous people of North America in the area that is now the US. In Canada they are called First Nations. In Mexico, Indigenous People.
The name is just a mistake (and hope of ) from the early Spanish explorers. The whole point of sending boats to the west instead of going east around Africa was to cut out middle men and find a better way to what was known as the East Indies (Indonesia today) and then perhaps go to Sri Lanka too. They wanted to trade for spice, which if you could get a cargo of cloves from the Moluccas back to Europe, had up to a 7000% return on investment. Columbus thought the earth was much smaller than it really was. Others had a more correct number. His calculation of how big a stadia was was incorrect. Most had the correct measurement. If the New World had not been there in the way for the trip to the Indies, he and his crew would have died of starvation and lack of water. It was in realty too far form the Canary Islands to Japan. So he could keep getting funding and backing only if he insisted that it was some western part of Indonesia (the Indies). He kept at this pretense long after it was clear he was wrong.
In any case, the name “Indians” for the people in the Americas stuck. India in 1492 was not really called India yet. The general area had been known under that name but not the specific term of the subcontinent and country that we see today. At first each kingdom was called it’s own name by the Europeans. It still isn’t “India” today in Hindi. It is was not an endonym. It is an exonym. For the Europeans the whole vague area from the South China Sea through SE Asia to India was “the Indies”. The South China sea was The Superior Indian Ocean in Latin. So Columbus and his fellows thought or wanted the Caribean Islands to be part of “the Indies” and called the people Indians.
Later, when the British also took large parts of Indian continent and called the thousand or more different ethnic groups “Indians” they needed a term to keep the two groups of people apart. Thus the term “Red Indians” for the supposed skin color. For some reason the British use the term “Blacks” for people who are native to India Subcontinent. The color part was never true but it stuck for a while in Britain. In America and Canada and Mexico the term was never really used. “Red skin” or “Red Indian” are not well liked terms today. They are considered insulting and are very very archaic.
As for where the Native people of America came from, DNA and archaeology shows that the Native people of the Americas are more related to each other than anyone else in the world. It appears that a number of different groups mixed in the land area that was coastal plains where the Bering Sea is today. They seem to have lived there for thousands of years. They genetically seperated from people in Siberia about 24,000 years ago. Those people in Siberia were later replaced by newer people. Then some of the people in Beringia moved south, first probably down the coast all the way to the tip of South America. Then east and then down though the center of North America. And east from the coast of Chile and Peru. A few others moved back to Asia. The new people in the Americas populated the both continents by 18,000- 14,000 years ago or earlier. They became a new people and changed a great deal from that time until the present but they are all related to those first people.
Each tribe has it’s own creation story, often putting their origin place near to where they lived in the recent past. As people and languages and cultures are changing all the time and new ones being created from the old there is every reason to think most of those creation stories are correct. Those locations are where they came into being as a new and distinct people different form their neighbors. Today in what is now the US here are 574 tribes and about 2.4 million enrolled tribal members. There are about 2.5 million more who feel they are also all or part Native American. In 1500, there were about 500 or more languages and they were in 26 or more major language families which tens of more that were isolates
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