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The Truth About Columbus and Genocide

Columbus did not actually discover America, as it was already inhabited by Native Americans. The document provides evidence that many societies already knew the world was round, and that Vikings had reached North America centuries before Columbus. Columbus's voyages led to genocide of the native Arawak people through slavery, murder, war, and disease. Within decades of his arrival, the population of the island was reduced from millions to hundreds due to violence and oppression at the hands of Columbus and other colonists.

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The Truth About Columbus and Genocide

Columbus did not actually discover America, as it was already inhabited by Native Americans. The document provides evidence that many societies already knew the world was round, and that Vikings had reached North America centuries before Columbus. Columbus's voyages led to genocide of the native Arawak people through slavery, murder, war, and disease. Within decades of his arrival, the population of the island was reduced from millions to hundreds due to violence and oppression at the hands of Columbus and other colonists.

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The Truth About

Columbus
Brad Jones
Native American History

The Lies
Discovered America
People thought that the earth was flat
before he proved it wasnt.
He was the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
His trip was full of obstacles.
He was the smartest guy on the voyage

The Truth
Cant discover what is already inhabited!!!
Native Americans and astronomy.
Everyone already knew the world to be round.
Two Natives tried to sail from Canada to
Scandinavia.
They shipwrecked in Holland around 60 B.C.
Sea was so calm that sailors could talk from one
ship to another.
The Pinzon brothers.

The Greed
He wanted to help his investors get rich.
He wanted gold.
Noticed gold on the Arawak, made them
prisoners, and insisted they guide him to
the gold.
I gathered from them by signs that by
going southward or steering round the
island in that direction, there would be
found a king who possessed great cups full
of gold.

I could conquer the whole of them with fifty men and


govern them as I pleased.

Second Voyage
His 2nd voyage was to Haiti.
Demanded food, gold, and spun cotton.
Whatever they had, the Spaniards wanted,
including women.
Columbus wanted control over the natives.
Cut off hands as a warning to others.

The Takeover
The Arawak began to resist after the
Spaniards started to try and takeover their
people.
They were outmatched by weaponry.
The Arawak resistance gave Columbus an
excuse to make war.
Had dogs trained to attack, tore the Arawak
apart.

The soldiers mowed down dozens with pointblank volleys, loosed the dogs to rip open limbs
and bellies, chased fleeing Indians into the
bushto skewer them on sword and pike, and
with Gods aid soon gained a complete victory,
killing many Indians and capturing others who
were also killed.
Ferdinand Columbus

Slavery
Rounded up fifteen hundred Arawaks after the defeat.
Picked five hundred of the best specimens to send
back to Spain.
Another five hundred were chosen to stay in Haiti as
slaves. Columbus released the rest.
So scared of being recaptured, women left infants on
the ground in order to flee to the mountains.
The Indian slave trade leads to the African slave trade.
10 million Africans were shipped as slaves across the
Atlantic.

A boat could sail from the Bahamas to Haiti without


compass or chart, guiding itself solely by the trail
of dead Indians who had been thrown from the
ships.
Las Casas

Genocide
Colonist of Haiti made Indians mine gold for them,
raise Spanish food crops, and even carry them
everywhere they went.
Not being able to take the hard labor and treatment,
Indians began to commit suicide.
On occasion, hundreds committed mass suicide.
Women began to shun conception and childbirth.
Many pregnant women would abort their unborn.
Others would kill their infants, so they would not
have to endure the oppressive slavery.

Genocide
Before Columbus, more than three million
people lived on Haiti.
Twenty five years after he arrived, only
twelve thousand remained.
By 1535, fewer than five hundred Arawaks
survived on Haiti.
By 1555, all were gone.

Columbus Day
Should this man be honored on the same
level as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. or
Abraham Lincoln?

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