News flash, there were already people here. Giving credit to either the vikings or Columbus would be like me letting myself into your house while you’re at work and discovering your television set. It was the age of conquest and the stone age Native Americans were no match for my ancestors. The vikings may have been the first Europeans in the New World, but they didn’t have the means to take it, and in the end, that’s all that matters.
Good grief, can you read?
“No other Westerner, rightfully, can claim to have discovered America.”
It’s not about who inhabited the Continent first, it’s about competing explorations and discoveries!
The thing is that Viking/North European knowledge of the World was coherent with that of the Catholic intellectual sphere at the time of Columbus.
Southern Europe (read Rome and the Vatican) simply was being dishonest.
All in all, this conflict is a consequense of Sweden’s military defeat of the Papal troops back in the 17th century.
Don’t you try and f*ck up our history!
It is sacred to us and we will come back at you, claiming dear truth.
Relations between European immigrants and American Indians were very mixed. Some big nasties were sometimes played upon the Indians, but sometimes friendships were forged. Indians often tended to be nomadic in North America, not claiming any one spot as their own, while Europeans were more inclined to settle in a fixed locale.
Anyhow, the current system of allotting reservations to Indian tribes, while a seemingly fair compromise, hasn’t turned out all that well for the Indians. They don’t live replicas of their valiant ancestors’ lives; they live in depression and squalor.