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October 12, 1492
- October 12, 1492, is etched in the brains of many as the day of “discovery,” but the Indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere and of Africa and descendants of enslaved Africans regard the date as the symbol of infamy, domination, slavery, and genocide.
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Feb 24, 2022 · More than a century before 105 white “adventurers” from the Virginia Company of London landed on a Virginia beachhead on May 14, 1607 (Don’t ask me how they knew they were going to Virginia ...
- Michael Harriot
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In 1920, a renowned American historian and linguist, Leo Weiner of Harvard University, in his book, Africa and the discovery of America, explained how Columbus noted in his journal that Native Americans had confirmed that “black skinned people had come from the south-east in boats, trading in gold-tipped spears.”.
- First Americans: 16,000-35,000 years ago. Almost all Native American tribes – Sioux, Comanche, Iroquois, Cherokee, Aztec, Maya, Quechua, Yanomani, and dozens of others – speak similar languages.
- Na-Dene: 3,000-8,000 BC. Another group, the Na-Dene, crossed the Bering Sea to Alaska around 5,000 years ago, although other studies suggest they settled the Americas as long as 10,000 years ago.
- Eskimo-Aleut: 2,000-2,500 BC. The Inuit descend from an earlier migration: that of speakers of the Eskimo-Aleut languages. These are distinct from other Native American languages, and might even be distantly related to Uralic languages such as Finnish and Hungarian.
- Inuit: AD 900. Just before the Vikings, the Inuit people travelled from Siberia to Alaska in skin boats. Hunting whales and seals, living in sod huts and igloos, they were well adapted to the cold Arctic Ocean, and skirted its shores all the way to Greenland.
Oct 2, 2023 · America's love affair with Christopher Columbus has been a rocky one. Some savor his day to celebrate Italian-American heritage, while others chafe at the impropriety of honoring a man who ...
- Brian Handwerk
Native peoples had lived in the Americas for well over ten thousand years by the time Christopher Columbus landed in the Bahamas in 1492. Spread across a variety of ecosystems from Canada to South America, they spoke hundreds of different languages. Their societies ranged from small agricultural villages and hunting camps to large urban centers ...
3. The Americas and the Impact of Columbus. “Mariposa Indian Encampment, Yosemite Valley, California” by Albert Bierstadt, ca. 1872. When your parents were in school, modern world history and U.S. history usually began in 1492, with the Italian Cristoforo Colombo’s “discovery” of America. Even today, typical histories of America tend ...
Sep 17, 2010 · The Black Death was a devastating global epidemic of bubonic plague that struck Europe and Asia in the mid-1300s. Explore the facts of the plague, the symptoms it caused and how millions died...
