I was born and raised in Oregon until I married and moved to Canada in '76. From what I remember, In school, we learned that that the Caribbean Islands were the West Indies and the Native American Indians, or indigenous, played into that. Then moving to BC, there were Sikhs, Pakistanis, First Nations, Inuit, and Métis. 'Indian' is now a very broad term for several races of people. Many Inuit look like Indonesians. It's a 'melting pot' - this world of ours!