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  2. A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

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    Historians have noted Irving's "active imagination" [3] and called some aspects of his work "fanciful and sentimental". [1] Literary critics have noted that Irving "saw American history as a useful means of establishing patriotism in his readers, and while his language tended to be more general, his avowed intention toward Columbus was thoroughly nationalist". [4]

  3. Columbus's letter on the first voyage - Wikipedia

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    Woodcut from 1494 Basel edition of Columbus's letter. Notice the depiction of the oar-driven galley in the foreground – an early European interpretation of the Indian canoe, as per Columbus's description. [13] Columbus's physical descriptions are brief, noting only that the natives have straight hair and "nor are they black like those in Guinea".

  4. American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New ...

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    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 ...

  5. Voyages of Christopher Columbus - Wikipedia

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    Columbus referred to the West Indies as the Indias Occidentales ('West Indies') in his 1502 Book of Privileges, calling them "unknown to all the world". He gathered information later that year from the natives of Central America which seem to further indicate that he realized he had found a new land.

  6. What is Indigenous Peoples' Day? What to know about ... - AOL

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    Columbus cut off the legs of native children who tried to run from them. He aided in sex trafficking nine and ten-year-old girls. Moving away from Columbus Day and celebrating Indigenous Peoples ...

  7. Christopher Columbus's journal - Wikipedia

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    Christopher Columbus's journal (Diario) is a diary and logbook written by Christopher Columbus about his first voyage.The journal covers events from 3 August 1492, when Columbus departed from Palos de la Frontera, to 15 March 1493 and includes a prologue addressing the sovereigns. [1]

  8. Book discussion club - Wikipedia

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    A book discussion club is a group of people who meet to discuss books they have read. It is often simply called a book club , a term that may cause confusion with a book sales club . Other terms include reading group , book group , and book discussion group .

  9. Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories - Wikipedia

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    Reenactment of a Viking landing in L'Anse aux Meadows. Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories are speculative theories which propose that visits to the Americas, interactions with the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, or both, were made by people from elsewhere prior to Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the Caribbean in 1492. [1]