“I’d like to point out the atrocities the indigenous peoples carried out against each other.”
Slavery, muder, mayhem, torture, the “noble savage” had more murderous ways to deal with each other than we knew...don’t they get the credit for teaching us new skills in “guerilla warfare” torture techniques (OK, maybe they learned some from the Spaniards in the south, but they were PRETTY good at skinning the white eyes) and on and on?
Their use of slavery was very common, but not much discussed today...
I would like to suggest that Columbus naysayers actually read his diary. It is clear through his own thoughts that Columbus loved the indigenous peoples and that they loved him in return.