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When Christopher Columbus arrived on the Bahamian Island of Guanahani (San Salvador) in 1492, he encountered the Taíno people, whom he described in letters as "naked as the day they were born." The Taíno had complex hierarchical religious, political, and social systems.
24 de nov. de 2023 · by Mika | Nov 24, 2023 | History. How did Christopher Columbus’s journey to the Americas impact indigenous peoples? To put it simply, Columbus’ impact on indigenous people was far from simple. Others argue that he brought with him exploitation, violence, and long-term consequences, but there is no agreement about what he did or didn’t do.
October 2009. 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...
12 de oct. de 2018 · - Scientific American Blog Network. Anthropology in Practice. Who are the Indigenous People That Columbus Met? Peaceful and warring—where does the truth lie about the Indigenous people of the...
- 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.
2 de ago. de 2016 · “They believe very firmly,” wrote Christopher Columbus after his first voyage to the Americas, “that I, with these ships and people, came from the sky.” 4 Other Indigenous Peoples reacted in similar ways to their first encounters with Europeans.
