Does anyone actually think that left alone for the last five hundred years that Indians would have created a rich, powerful, free, technologically advanced society?

Ninety percent of the Indians who died did so from inadvertent disease transmission. As for those that died or were moved unjustly, at least as seen from today’s perspective, well that’s unfortunate. But it was a rough world back then. I’m sure if Muslims had taken over the continent they would have treated the Indians with love and compassion, after all Islam is the religion of peace.

In Mexico 85% showed some Amerindian ancestor, the point being that while many did die, most were just assimilated into Spanish society.

I’ve spent a lot of Fridays in a Central Florida ‘hood in the past 6-years and have NEVER yet heard a black man or woman, boy or girl call themselves “African American”. Never. So, the Lefty Thought Police can dial 1-800-Bite-Me.

My father had some Indian ancestry.

The intermarriage of Europeans and Indians is something which the Columbus Day_Day of Tragedy adherents often forget.

As for the pre-Columbian natives: it’s anti-traditional to celebrate those who did absolutely nothing.

It was Columbus that discovered them… Plains Indians didn’t sail off to Italy — or even Iberia.

Though there is actually VERY strong evidence that, unlike Europeans, the American natives DID know about the existence of Europe.

Strangely, considering the Gulf Stream, it’s always been the case that it was the Europeans sailing west that crossed the Atlantic.

There are no tales of Americans sailing east to Europe. Absolutely none. They must have heard about how tough life was in the Old World… OR:

Their legends told of super men (Whites/ ghosts) … There be great danger there.

Such legends exist for virtually every Atlantic tribe — and many an inland tribe.

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There was a race ware in the ancient past. But not so ancient that its legacy did not survive down to the modern time.

The legends universally held that it took 30 to 50 Asiatic Americans to defeat a single European American.

Allowing for hyperbole, exaggeration, and such, it would appear that the European Americans got started 10,000 years earlier; then became upper caste — like the Spartans of Greece — and then at some point the under class Asiatics revolted and liquidated ALL of the European American blood.

That saga fits the facts, (DNA) the legends, and the legacy structures.

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For modern Leftists, all that matters is the race-hustle.

Christopher Columbus was a deeply enigmatic person, who seemed to prefer that his background not be especially well known. And yes, he was not a very nice man in some respects. (I’m not referring to his superior attitude towards indigenous Americans; he was very much a man of his times in that regard. No, I’d refer instead to how, for example, he kept morale up on his ship by offering a substantial reward for the first sailor to sight land… and then refused to pay up when the time came.)

Let it be remembered, however, that he sailed across the Atlantic Ocean with NO modern instruments of any sort, and made it back home again. He then repeated the experience, and hit the bulls-eye in three subsequent expeditions. I rarely see him credited for his genius in navigation, a feat few people in history have even attempted, never mind done successfully!