Christopher Columbus killed 5M indians and looted gold reserves is known for being an explore

Christopher Columbus killed 5M indians and looted gold reserves is known for being an explorer . They have a holiday to celebrate him as a legendary master sailor and a passionate entrepreneur and also have a statue for him.


The Lucayan: The Indigenous people Christopher Columbus could not annihilate

Columbus raped, pillaged and killed in his exploration of the New World, but he couldn't decimate the Lucayan
An engraving by Theodor de Bry depicting Christopher Columbus landing on Hispaniola on Dec. 6, 1492. PHOTO BY THEODOR DE BRY/LIBRARY OF CONGRE
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The Lucayan did not know it was Oct. 12, 1492. They did not know that their island, in what would become the Bahamas, had been spotted by Spanish explorers led by a Genoese man named Christopher Columbus. And they did not know that in less than 30 years, their island would be empty from the coming genocide.

As Columbus and his men approached, the Lucayans greeted them warmly, offering food and water, and “we understood that they had asked us if we had come from heaven,” he wrote in his journal.Brother says Saskatchewan stabbing victim was a caring first responder

all be subjugated and made to do what is required of them.”

Some of them, he noticed, were wearing gold nose rings.

Columbus and his crew stayed just long enough to kidnap a few inhabitants, before sailing away to explore other islands filled with indigenous people.

This year Washington, D.C., joins at least five states and dozens of cities and counties in replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day. It’s part of a decades-long reckoning with the sanitized version of the European colonization of the Americas.

In Hispaniola — what is now Haiti and the Dominican Republic — Columbus encountered the Lucayans’ cousins, the Taíno. (The Lucayan were a branch of the much larger Taíno, who were part of the Arawak language group.) Historians disagree on how many Taíno lived on Hispaniola at the time, with estimates ranging from 60,000 to 8 million. One contemporaneous account from Bartolomé de las Casas claimed there were 3 million. More about las Casas shortly.Christopher Columbus at Palos harbour (Cartagena) – possible departure point for Columbus’ first expedition to the New World. PHOTO BY GETTY IMAGES

There Columbus built a fort where he left a few dozen of his crew, killed two people, took more hostages and sailed back to Spain. As soon as they hit cooler weather, the Taíno began to die, according to Howard Zinn in “A People’s History of the United States.”

After significantly overselling the prospects for gold to the king and queen of Spain, Columbus returned to Hispaniola with 17 ships and 1,200 men. The men he had left at the fort the year before had all been killed, “after they had roamed the island in gangs looking for gold, taking women and children as slaves for sex and labour,” Zinn wrote.


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