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Christopher Columbus carried ideas that boded ill for Indies natives. The Gallery Collection / Corbis. In the year 1513, a group of men led by Vasco Núñez de Balboa marched across the Isthmus...
24 de nov. de 2023 · The encounter between Christopher Columbus and the indigenous populations of the Americas marked a seismic shift in social and demographic landscapes, leaving an indelible imprint on the course of history.
- Unlearning Columbus
- Unworthy of Praise
- Trauma Passed Down Through Generations
- The Silencing of Indigenous Voices
Indigenous peoples populated the land now called the United States for more than 15,000 years before the arrival of Christopher Columbus, but most American schools teach that Columbus “discovered” America—despite the fact that he never set foot on its soil. That dichotomy has never sat well with Connor Beard, a senior in the College of Arts & Scien...
Brooke Parmalee, a second-year student at Penn Law School, graduate co-chair of Natives at Penn, and a member of the Schaghticoke Tribal Nationin Connecticut, says the glorification of Christopher Columbus is disturbing, and the destructive effects of the colonial era he ushered in continue to harm Indigenous communities to this very day. “It’s fru...
In 1779, while he was fighting a war of independence to free the fledgling United States from British rule, George Washington, then commander in chief of the Continental Army, waged a concurrent war to subjugate and destroy the Haudenosaunee Confederacyin central New York. Also called the Iroquois or Six Nation Confederacy, the union consists of th...
Américo Mendoza-Mori, a lecturer in the Department of Hispanic and Portuguese Studiesin the School of Arts & Sciences who teachesQuechua and Spanish, says the debate surrounding the veneration of Christopher Columbus and the rejection of him by Indigenous communities is about more than just statues, holidays, or Columbus himself, it’s about what he...
14 de oct. de 2019 · Historians once said the inhabitants of the Caribbean islands were extinct within 160 years of Columbus's arrival. But new research shows that isn't true.
12 de oct. de 2018 · With the de-emphasis on Columbus as a hero, the voices of Indigenous peoples and associated scholarship has an opportunity to challenge what has been long accepted as a truth.
After his first transatlantic voyage, Christopher Columbus sent an account of his encounters in the Americas to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain. Several copies of his manuscript were made for court officials, and a transcription was published in April 1493.
2 de ago. de 2016 · What misconceptions did the Arawak seem to have about the Europeans who arrived on Christopher Columbus’s ships? What misconceptions did Columbus and other Europeans have about the Indigenous Peoples they encountered?
