Why Indigenous Peoples' Day Replaced Columbus Day
from the period, these women were whipped and tortured into submission when they attempted to fight off these sexual assaults.suppressed through murder and torture. For years, through the Encomienda system, rapid spread of European-born diseases, and habitual mass torture and murder, the Taíno people were nearly exterminated, leading the Spanish to begin using kidnapped Africans as slaves.
Many modern defenders of Columbus chalk up the behavior of him and his men as typical of those times, but this is far from true. While conquest often involves rape, murder, and torture, the treatment of the Taíno Indians and African people was just as horrid then as it was now.
The second issue with celebrating Christopher Columbus in the United States is that it's based on the alarmingly common misconception that he"discovered America." First and foremost, it's important to understand that one cannota place that is already occupied by millions of people. In addition, Columbus wasn't even the first European to arrive in the Americas, and wasby the Vikings, Polynesians, and, according to many scholars, Chinese and African explorers as well.
During his voyages across the Atlantic, Columbus landed in what is now Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, and South America. Still, many Americans are erroneously led to believe that he landed in what is now the mainland United States and formed a settlement there, though neither of these assumptions are true.
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