Christopher Columbus 1493 - Creative Commons Washington, DC Press Release - The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), the largest and most representative American Indian and Alaska Native organization in the country, does not acknowledge Christopher Columbus as a hero. To Indigenous people’s, he was the opposite, especially after the death of George Floyd, murdered / lynched by a White police officer: Out of timbers for the Santa Maria,...Columbus built a fort on Hispaniola, the first European military base in the Western Hemisphere...He took...Indian prisoners and put them abroad his two remaining ships...He got into a fight with Indians who refused to trade as many bows and arrows as he and his men wanted. Two were run through with swords and bled to death. Then the Nina and the Pinta set sail....When the weather turned cold, the Indian prisoners began to die. In the year 1495, they went on a great slave raid, rounded up fifteen hundred Arawak m...
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