I did years of research for my book, Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem. He was a good man, friends with the natives, The son of one chief became his adopted godson and travelled with him. People know very little about Columbus and are blaming him for things he did not think or do. He thought he was traveling to China where he intended to set up a trading post as had Marco Polo.
This is in his writings and his agreement with Queen Isabella. I have done years of research about Columbus and people should read my book, Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem. He thought he was on the periphery of China and set up a trading post as he heard Marco Polo had done.
This is in his writings [and see my book too]. He thought there were not manyyears left. He was friends with the natives, one became his adopted son… etc. He is receiving alot of bad and erroneous press. They called Native Americans savages because they bathed. They thought that bathing was a sin and that their beliefs should be forced on others, all while their stinky diseased selves brought death and almost wiped out american natives all by itself.
The native american girls who wanted to be warriors and hunters and boys who taught the other women beadwork that was covered worldwide were honored by their tribes but shamed by the white eyes who supposedly are woke but frighteningly too far extreme even by old native american standards.
I would have wanted to be a hunter warrior but I would have wanted a male hunter warrior for my partner and that would be okay. How about we allow them to build and own casinos and make a lot of money from people gambling? By David J. It is often said that in the centuries after Columbus landed in the New World on 12 October , more native North Americans died each year from infectious diseases brought by European settlers than were born.
They fell victim to epidemic waves of smallpox, measles, influenza, bubonic plague, diphtheria, typhus, cholera, scarlet fever, chicken pox, yellow fever, and whooping cough. Just how many died may never be known. By the end of the 19th century the population had shrunk to about Does this mean Columbus was a villain and everything he stands for should be demolished? In this essay we will explore how Columbus Day is honored or observed in the United States of America and how celebrating this holiday opens up sore wounds for American Indians and how he opened the doors for transatlantic slavery, mass murders and cruelty to the Indigenous people of America.
This essay will explore the apparent legacy that Columbus is celebrate and honored for, and whether or not all Americans should continue to honor Columbus Day. These schools forcefully broke up families, stripped kids of their culture, and sent them back, seemingly without an identity. They were given new names, new clothes, short hair, and many other different things, dividing them from their families.
These institutions were abusive, and caused great harm to the cultures of the indigenous tribes. Though the schools came with a promise that they would offer the Native American children a better future, this was simply not the case.
Racism prevented any Indian, no matter how assimilated, from being truly accepted and equal in the eyes of the American population.
Most never had to hunt or farm back in Europe, this caused starvation, because they were ignorant to it. A Captain had to come and set everything straight so less people would die.
This quickly caused a change in how colonization went, more people were settling in the new world and less were dying. Different type of agriculture and jobs were formed at this time causing a major transition in America. In conclusion, the early settlement of the Europeans shaped America to be the country it is today. They always get into disagreements about land rights and how the land should be distributed.
They reason that they have so many arguments is they have different attitudes towards land ownership. The Natives believed that selling land meant getting a neighbor and sharing resources. The colonists believed that once you bought the land that the previous owners left immediately and never came back. Some people believe that since they weren't using it for farming so it automatically should go to the colonists so they could farm. Sadly, when Poma sent off his big book of information, his culture had been deemed illiterate in the minds of academia and his stories were lost.
Pratt claims, that if the receivers had observed the reading and pursued to learn from it, they would have stored a better understanding of what life was like for the Andean subjects.
As a replacement, another text, written by a Spanish, Andean citizen living in Spain colored the perspective in a Spanish positive light and was assumed to be the right perspective. Protests against the Columbus Day holiday and parades, as well as commemorative statues, have continued to be regular occurrences — particularly since a programme of th anniversary events in The anniversary amplified Native American protests against what they perceived to be the celebration of genocide and conquest.
A common feature of protests in recent years has been pouring red paint onto statues of Columbus to represent the blood lost over centuries. Many states are now voting to remove statues from state buildings and public parks, acknowledging the pain that celebrating Columbus causes for so many, and the way it privileges the settler narrative. Statues of Columbus are markers of how societies choose to remember their history.
It is a selective and often politicised process: who is chosen to be remembered and, equally, who is not. Physically pulling down a statue of Columbus does not erase him from history, it removes a symbol that publicly and officially celebrates a particular historical narrative.
Many indigenous activists feel that bringing down the symbol of Columbus is an important challenge to a national narrative that continues to erase indigenous history as well as a way to forefront their own history.
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