Reply #149: We also called their women "Squaws" . . . .

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which means VAGINA . . . !!!

One source was from the Catholic priests who accompanied Columbus -- from journals --

as I recall it.

And, do you think that all the information you have been offered in your schooling and

in our patriarchal culture is ALL of the truth?

There were 40 million native people here when Columbus arrived so he never "discovered" anything!

And, prior explorers had also reached these shores.

Meanwhile, keep in mind the Papal Bulls, as well -- which I'm not sure that Zinn talks about --

but they advocated the enslavement of the natives, or their death! Same for the African here.

It was impossible for them to enslave the natives -- despite the savagery of the invaders --

and finally they just wiped all of them out. In the case of the African, they were unfamiliar

with the land, languages and it was more difficult for them to evade enslavement.


Start with Zinn's "A People's History of the US" -- you can't go wrong there --

it's a book offered in many college courses.