1.____________Americans were living in North America for many hundreds of years before Europeans reached the 2. ____________. For a long time white people called them 3.___________. Today many people do not like this name since it is 4. ____________on a mistake: it was given to the people living in the America by Christopher Columbus who, when he 5.____________ there, thought he 6.____________in India. Instead, people 7.____________ to use the term Native Americans.