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Possibly worried that his characterization might make it appear that the natives are unsuitable for useful labor, Columbus notes that the Indians are "not slow or unskilled, but of excellent and acute understanding". He also notes that the "women appear to work more than the men". Columbus lands in Hispaniola, some natives flee, others trade.
Vilches traces Columbus’s mass murder and elimination of Native Americans back to his promise to the Spanish royalty of finding enough gold to fund a Christian crusade in Jerusalem. [19] Vilches argues that the journal’s documented New World potential directly led to the promise of gold which resulted in the massacre of innocent Taíno. [19]
Stannard begins with a description of the cultural and biological diversity in the Americas prior to contact in 1492. The book surveys the history of European colonization in the Americas, for approximately 400 years, from the first Spanish assaults in the Caribbean in the 1490s to the Wounded Knee Massacre in the 1890s--the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America have suffered ...
Celebrate Native American history month with these wise and inspirational quotes from Native Americans and Indigenous Peoples.
Native American pieces of literature come out of a rich set of oral traditions from before European contact and/or the later adoption of European writing practices. Oral traditions include not only narrative story-telling, but also the songs, chants, and poetry used for rituals and ceremonies.
Indigenous People’s Day was created in reaction to atrocities carried out by Columbus and European settlers against Native American people in the Americas ... Americans that Columbus literally ...
Columbus Day is still a federal holiday, and while some argue it celebrates Italian American heritage, others say it glorifies an exploration that led to the genocide of native peoples. "To have ...
Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures; NativeWiki literature pages; Associated Press/CNN.com: Reading into Native American Writers; Storytellers: Native American Authors Online. Yax Te' Books catalog, publishing house for Mayan literature in Mayan, Spanish and English.