So that the people in the joke can be named things that are basically titles encompassing their identity, which Native/Indigenous Americans were known for.
People nowadays still call them Indians despite them being called that was from a mistake by Englishmen who expected to be traveling to India, not some entirely new continent in between. It's like a slang meme like "gay" but hundreds of years old.
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So that the people in the joke can be named things that are basically titles encompassing their identity, which Native/Indigenous Americans were known for.
People nowadays still call them Indians despite them being called that was from a mistake by Englishmen who expected to be traveling to India, not some entirely new continent in between. It's like a slang meme like "gay" but hundreds of years old.