[breakem]

Columbus will continue to be one of the great pivotal characters in western and world civilization. He did what no one before him would or could do and his voyages lead to what is agruably one of the greatest ciivilizations in the world.

In a world of war and might makes right, the Indians were overrun by a superior civilization. They made war and enslaved each other. They engaged in cannibalism, torture, human sacrifice, body mutilation etc. They got their asses kicked by a stronger civilization: Europe. This sanctimonious whining about Columbus is a desparate attempt to get emotional reparations.

So let's agree there was slavery and war and disease on evryone's part and the Indians lost. Now what!

[Eternal_Bear]

Honor thr treaties made! Can you even do that? Is that too much to ask to keep your word?

[mathurine]

I suppose if Columbus had not come, no one else would have and the aborigines would still be out in their deerskins stalking game to shoot with stone-tipped arrows. The whole PC agenda is so stupid. The reason all these Indian groups are so adamant about blocking any archaeological explorations is because they don't want it revealed that they were among the few civilizations that regressed instead of progressing-- Mohammedanism being another notably regressive culture.

[driftless]

Best summation I've read so far on all these Columbus threads.