I liked the observation (from the article, not the excerpt) that indigenous people of the Americas lived in the stone age. That is pithy statement, which I've never heard before.
A minor nit-pick is that several articles I've read could have used minor editing.
Maybe we should replace Columbus day with Charles Martel Day. Today is the anniversary of his victory in 732 at the battle of Tours.
I celebrate Columbus Day because if the great voyages of discovery hadn’t taken place, the muslims would have taken over Europe.
“nasty, brutish, and short.”
Thanks for posting. Good to see an article with both sides.
Columbus deserves to be celebrated for his courage, sense of adventure, and his actual achievements which above all was making a very hazardous voyage and trailblazing a route to a new world.
To criticize him for being part of the culture of his days is moronic. The same can be said for those who criticize Jefferson and other founders for owning slaves.
No invitations to the PC cocktail parties for this author!
Books you need to read about the Indian Wars before your mind is perverted by modern apologists, movies and TV shows..
Massacres of the Mountains by J.p. Dunn Jr.
On the Border with Crook by Burke
My Life on the Plains by Custer
The Indian Wars of 1864 by Lt Ware.
Almost any book written by a Mountain Man. Andrew Garcia, Osborn Russell. John Y. Nelson, and way too many others.
Web sites;
http://www.dickshovel.com/scalp.html
http://phys.org/news/2015-10-mexican-site-yields-sacrifice-spaniards.html
http://ancientstandard.com/2007/07/17/csi-new-mexico-%E2%80%93-possible-genocide-ca-1275-ad/
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2885-mass-human-sacrifice-unearthed-in-peru/
http://archive.archaeology.org/9709/newsbriefs/anasazi.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/06/0601_wireanasazi.html
http://www.jeffposey.net/2015/08/18/were-the-anasazi-cannibals/
Back about 1980 there was a show on OETA Oklahoma called IMAGES OF INDIANS. In one episode, a young Indian man said Indians NEVER scalped or tortured anyone! “They would not do anything like that!” But they DID!
YEP! Ancient life in the Americas was all peaches and cream before the “evil” White Man showed up and brought civilization!
An author that depicts Native Americans in a balanced fashion is Terry C. Johnston.
He wrote 31 books, mostly on western tribes, and early mountain men explorers.
He did a great deal of research for his stories.
https://www.amazon.com/Terry-C.-Johnston/e/B000AP969Q
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_C._Johnston
Just got back from an Italian food store. Political correctness killed Columbus Day. NO mention of CD ANYWHERE in the store. No special sales.
I DID see an obese, pregnant Sudanese Muslim woman and her daughter with ZERO English language skills EXPECTING to be waited on by a middle aged, skinny Italian man who worked at the store.
You could SEE the frustration on his face. She would not pick up one tiny light box and actually expected ME to help her as the Italian man carted her out with cases of pasta, etc. Boxes were literally spilling off at the heavily ladened cart.
She gestured at me and pointed as if to say, YOU, PEON, pick up my STUFF! I ignored her and walked past.
Probably all EBT purchases. She climbed into a brand new Toyota Highlander to add injury to insult!
Umm I am a naturalized American (originally from Canada) and I NEVER expected to be waited on and not speak English!!
I almost threw up in my mouth when the older Italian lady at the cash register was trying to appease her by telling her how “beautiful” her wildly coloured dress was.
If he had been right about the circumference of the globe, and the American continents had not been in the way, what would have happened? He reached an island in the Bahamas about 24 degrees North. If he had been near Asia instead, he would have missed Japan and run into Taiwan.
Would he have made it back to Spain alive or would the people back in Spain have been left wondering what ever happened to him?