Columbus's Abhorrent Treatment Of Native Americans

The letter Christopher Columbus wrote back to Spain to report his findings in the New World sparked intrigued me and sparked my imagination. Why I have been so absorbed in this letter I can not explain. This letter is supposed to be about describing an unknown land, a land that has not been seen by anyone besides the natives, but it seems that there is more to it than that. Columbus is known in elementary schools as the man who found the New World, and is regarded as a hero. To the contrary, historians who have done more research on Columbus say that he was driven by fame and fortune and that he was tyrannical in his ways with the indigenous peoples of the places that he came to find. I feel that the contradictory tones Columbus uses

Dinesh D'Souza wrote a well-written article over “ The Crimes of Christopher Columbus.” He represents the idea that it is more important for students to learn about many cultures rather than focus on only the western culture. He used many quotes throughout his essay, as well as using Christopher Columbus as his prime example.

School taught us about the infamous Christopher Columbus who was known as the hero who found the Americas in 1492, but is that the truth? Is Columbus really the hero that grade school portrayed him to be? Columbus was not. Columbus was a greedy man who destroyed an entire race of people with genocide just so only he could benefit and become a man of money and power.

All my life, I have been hearing about Christopher Columbus. Since little, first, my family talking about him, then in school learning about him. I really thought he was a hero. The way they teach you about him in grammar school or middle school makes you think he really is a hero. But later on, doing research on him, looking for what he really did, where did he came from etc. I realize that he is not a hero. There are many reasons why people think he is good as well there are many reasons why they think he is bad. Personally I think Columbus is a villain, he did a lot of bad things that most people don’t know a bout. However if they know them, it would make them think a little bit deeper if Columbus is the Hero

Zinn argues that the perspective of indigenous people should not be omitted and argues that their perspectives are as significant as any other. He provides insight and perspectives of the Indians to describe how the heinous acts of the Europeans were unjustified. He also discusses that the Europeans had a continual motive of exploring during that time which was to increase the power/authority of the Spanish Crown by whatever means necessary, usually leading to violent wars.

Two-hundred years ago, there was a scientific study on the brains of Native Americans called the craniology and phrenology. The Europeans examined only indigenous people’s heads and were forbidden to use any European’s brains. The Europeans did three experiments, such as decapitating the tops of the heads and filling them with sand to see if their brains were smaller than blacks. The Europeans also looked at the bones and said that if the bones were in a certain way (such as natives cheek bones being up higher) the person was thought to be stupid. The last experiment the Europeans did to American Indians was that they had a small devise that they would put on the head and it would slice the brain open. There would be an award for

5. In tradtional history books, according to Zinn, Christopher Columbus' story is portrayed as an adventure rather than a bloodshed tragedy. Children are taught that he sailed the ocean blue in 1492 and discovered America. However, they are not taught about the many lives destroyed by Columbus and his men when they realized the many advantages they had against the natives.

From the dawn of mankind to present day, the human race has been a rapidly evolving society. Having begun by developing thousands of languages, then advancing to constructing the tallest artificial structures to exist in present day, humans have obtained countless achievements for not being around for very long compared to other species. Christopher Columbus, unknowingly, discovered a whole new world and started the exploration of the Americas for everyone to come in the future. He opened the gate for the exploration of the Spanish, French, and English in the New World. These three groups of people, while all from different places and of varying mindsets, all colonized in the Americas and had contrasting interactions

For more than five centuries Americans have lifted Christopher Columbus to heights of greatness and god-like. We celebrate his life as though he was a man that had done us a great favor. In resent years Christopher Columbus has come under scrutiny, his life and works being questioned more than celebrated. There have be many great men and women that contributed to the building of our great nation but they do not receive anywhere as much recognition as Columbus. When a person begins to study the actual accounts of the "finding of the New World" they begin to wonder if Columbus should adored or hated for his actions. As a child I was taught that Columbus was a great man that had accomplished great things for the sake of humanity, but in

"I don 't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves."- John Wayne. Even though John Wayne was greatly mistaken, he is entitled to his opinion. There are also others like John Wayne who feels this way towards Native Americans. However I am not one of those people who agree with John Wayne. The brutal extract of the Native Americans in the United States was not only unjustified, it also tremendously impacted later generations.

Regarding the article, “Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress, Dr. Howard Zinn argues that there is another perspective to consider as to Christopher Columbus’ adventures. Dr. Howard Zinn’s position is that history books have omissions of slavery, death and innocent bloodshed that accompanied the adventures of Christopher Columbus. In the following statements Dr. Howard Zinn describes his perspective; “The writer began the history, five hundred years ago, of the European invasion of the Indian Settlement in the Americas. That beginning, when you read Las Casas- even if his figures are exaggerations (were there 3 million Indians to begin with, as he says or 250,000, as modern historians calculate) is conquest, slavery, and death. When

Christopher Columbus affected the natives in many positive ways, such as geography, political, and economics.

When Columbus discovered the New World in 1492, he noticed it had already been inhabited by others. Which means he was not truly the first one to discover it since it was already colonized. This of course didn’t stop him for claiming it. The initial estimate of inhabitants thought to be on the land was ten million South Americans and four million North Americans. There is no way to be absolutely sure how many were actually there, because they were scattered all throughout America. On the other hand, this would mean the population would have been relatively high. The Native’s initial reaction to the Europeans was hesitant at first, but then they both realized they could help each other out by trading, learning, and teaching one another. Soon,

When it comes to racism in history there is a variety of innocent nations and races that unfortunately had to go through many inhuman and disturbing situations. The surfing of these nations and races were uncalled for and just brought pain and sorrow too these nations. Although there is a verity of nations and races that had to go through this depressing and difficult time one nation stands out from the rest. The one nation that stands out from the rest are the Native Americans. The Native Americans stand out from the rest when it comes to racism because they were seen as less of a human in the eyes of Christopher Columbus and his men, the Native Americans were forced to accept a life style they were not accustom to and as well as they

Christopher Columbus came upon a large island while he was sailing the western region by the Atlantic Ocean that was later known as the Caribbean which was December 5, 1492. Columbus eventually settled on this island and claimed it for the Spanish Crown. In 1625, the French took control of what was called Saint-Domingue (Lawless,2018), then what we know today to be called Haiti was started in 1660. Once upon a time Haiti was one of the most wealthiest French colonies, they became so wealthy from the amount of sugar and coffee they produced. It was being sold everywhere, one of the most popular goods sold back then. When the French Revolution started in 1789, the people of Haiti began to rebel in 1791 which later came to Haiti becoming an independent