Why do we call them Native Americans?

Maybe I am just getting a little too ambitious. I have already published my first post ever, and I am already getting started on my second post on a completely different topic. Who says I have to adhere to anything?

Anyway, you can probably figure out what I am going to post about from the title of this post. But seeing that I am at least a small percentage Native American, I feel like this will be alright. I'll get my DNA results in the mail some day soon. For real, I really ordered them. Spit in the tube and everything.

Anyway, it doesn't make much sense why we call them Native Americans, right? Let me break down my logic for you.

A long time ago, around the time of Christopher Columbus, we have this Italian explorer named Amerigo Vespucci, and it's who the North and South American continents are named after. Why do we call American Indians, for instance, Native Americans? We are calling them natives of a land founded by an Italian explorer, not natives of their own land that they had inhabited for millennia before. If that's not messed up, then I don't know what is. That's just a little food for thought that you get from me on this Tuesday evening.