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In reply to the discussion: Columbus didn't "Discover" anything. Seriously. The NA Continent was already discovered. [View all]Tikki
(14,560 posts)25. Maybe it's because we live in a Liberal Blue Coast State, but none of our sons' teachers..
in the 70's and 80's had any problem with the boys giving reports, at least once in Elementary School and another time
in High School, about their mother's people.
They always mentioned that their earliest ancestors were on this Continent before their
European ancestors came here.
I bet you are correct though, that there are places that still want the History to go a certain way.
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Columbus didn't "Discover" anything. Seriously. The NA Continent was already discovered. [View all]
dballance
Oct 2013
OP
I Think It's Insulting to the Indigenous Peoples to say "Discovered" the way it's said now.
dballance
Oct 2013
#2
Coronado did not visit the Grand Canyon. He went to Zuni and turned east to the Rio Grande pueblos.
Coyotl
Oct 2013
#12
he reported back to the dominant civilization on the planet the existence of another continent
CBGLuthier
Oct 2013
#9
Spain was anything but the dominant civilization on the planet. Spain was totally uncivil.
Coyotl
Oct 2013
#13
He discovered something unknown to a major center of civilization and learning
krispos42
Oct 2013
#10
What Columbus "discovered" was ALREADY a major center of civilization and learning.
dballance
Oct 2013
#15
Exactly. Asians "discovered" North America thousands of years before Columbus and
pampango
Oct 2013
#14
Damn immigrants. They've been intruding on "our" land since before "we" even discovered it.
pampango
Oct 2013
#18
Believe me, as a Daughter of the LAKOTA the lies never get past my Elementary School grandchildren..
Tikki
Oct 2013
#19
Maybe it's because we live in a Liberal Blue Coast State, but none of our sons' teachers..
Tikki
Oct 2013
#25
Yeh, time to stop perpetuating this lie, and stop celebrating the start of the systematic genocide
Zorra
Oct 2013
#20
My prediction is that we will find evidence of waves of immigrants to the Americas
Taverner
Oct 2013
#21
Well, yep. A self-centered, profiteer with no empathy for other humans. So Yes.
dballance
Oct 2013
#26