By David E. Stannard
ISBN-10: 0195085574
ISBN-13: 9780195085570
For 400 years-from the 1st Spanish attacks opposed to the Arawak humans of Hispaniola within the 1490s to the U.S. Army's bloodbath of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee within the 1890s—the indigenous population of North and South the US persisted an endless firestorm of violence. in the course of that point the local inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere declined through as many as a hundred million humans. certainly, as historian David E. Stannard argues during this beautiful new booklet, the eu and white American destruction of the local peoples of the Americas was once the main mammoth act of genocide within the background of the world.
Stannard starts with a portrait of the big richness and variety of existence within the Americas ahead of Columbus's fateful voyage in 1492. He then follows the trail of genocide from the Indies to Mexico and crucial and South the United States, then north to Florida, Virginia, and New England, and eventually out around the nice Plains and Southwest to California and the North Pacific Coast. Stannard unearths that anyplace Europeans or white american citizens went, the local humans have been stuck among imported plagues and barbarous atrocities, generally leading to the annihilation of ninety five percentage in their populations. what sort of humans, he asks, do such horrendous issues to others? His hugely provocative solution: Christians. Digging deeply into historic ecu and Christian attitudes towards intercourse, race, and struggle, he reveals the cultural flooring ready by means of the tip of the center a long time for the centuries-long genocide crusade that Europeans and their descendants launched-and in locations proceed to wage-against the recent World's unique population. Advancing a thesis that's absolute to create a lot controversy, Stannard contends that the perpetrators of the yank Holocaust drew at the related ideological wellspring as did the later architects of the Nazi Holocaust.
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As Frantz Fanon once put it: "The colonial ist . . reaches the point of no longer being able to imagine a time occur- BEFORE C O LUMBUS 15 ring without him. His irruption into the history of the colonized people is deified, transformed into absolute necessity. " 26 Then, as Said has cogently observed, the settler group adorns itself with the mantle of the victim: the European homeland of the colonists--or the metropolitan European power that politically controls the settlement area-is portrayed as the oppressor, while the European settlers depict themselves as valiant seekers of justice and freedom, struggling to gain their deserved independence on the land that they "discovered " or that is theirs by holy right.
Literally tons of shell, pearl, and other precious objects were hauled out in wheelbarrows and sold by the side of the road. 44 In contrast, other large communities have left immense and permanent reminders of their past glories-such as the huge earthen mound at Ca hokia, Illinois. At the center of a large community that sprawled down the banks of the Illinois River for a distance as great as that from one end of San Francisco to the other today, with houses spread out over more than 2000 acres of land, stood a gigantic man-made structure extending ten stories into the air and containing 22,000,000 cubic feet of earth.
26 Pottery developed in this region at least 4000 years ago and true agri culture followed about 1 000 years later. Although the people of the south east did hunt and fish, they lived primarily in sedentary communities dis tinguished by clusters of towering temple mounds, large public buildings that each held scores and sometimes hundreds of assigned seats for politi- BEFORE C O LU M B U S 27 cal and religious gatherings, and assemblages of individual family houses that spread out over as many as fifteen to twenty miles.
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