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History of Aboriginal America 13 The Invisible Allies of the Conquistadors Columbus was notorious for continuing to insist, despite growing evidence to the contrary—and his own encounter with the South American continent on his fourth voyage—that he had found the route to the Indies in 1492. You could call this insistence peculiar stubbornness (of which […]
History of Aboriginal America 7: The Birth of Aboriginal Rights
January 20, 2011
Plato, Aristotle & the School of Athens 10. The Father of International Law & the Rights of Indigenous Americans In 1532, forty years after Columbus first voyage, we hear for the first time some philosophic and legal objection to what had being occurring in the Americas. A cleric and academic by the name of Francisco […]
1493 – The Santángel Letter – First News of the New World
January 15, 2011
—–The Santángel Letter written by Christopher Columbus in 1493, is the first news (aside from the Norse sagas) that Europeans had of the Americas. It represents the first appearance in European discourse of the image of what would come to be referred to as ‘the noble savage,’ and also introduces us — in company with […]
History of Aboriginal America 4 – Columbus & the Race for the Americas
October 1, 2010
5. Hero What qualities make a hero? What shall we tell the children when they see his statue in the square? Our brave hero, Columbus, was bull-headed and ignorant, ungrateful, greedy, ambitious, ruthless, reckless, a murderer, a whiner and a liar. These are not the usual qualities of our pop culture heroes, perhaps, but you […]
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An Informal Chronology of the Aboriginal Land Question in BC
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April 5, 2013
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