Christopher Columbus and his legacy : opposing viewpoints /
Articles present opposing viewpoints on such Columbus-related issues as the motives of the conquistadors, treatment of the Indians and twentieth-century views of Columbus.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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San Diego, CA :
Greenhaven Press,
[1992]
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| Series: | Opposing viewpoints series (Unnumbered)
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Table of Contents:
- Columbus was a hero / Samuel Eliot Morison
- Columbus was a pitiable man / Justin Winsor
- Columbus is a Christian hero : a Catholic view in 1892 / Pope Leo XIII
- Columbus's role in Christianity should be reassessed : views from 1992 / Jack Wintz
- The conquistadors' motives were pure / Jean Descola
- The conquistadors were murderers / Bartolomé de las Casas
- The conquistadors fought in self-defense / Bernal DÃaz del Castillo
- The conquistadors fought without reason / Miguel Leon-Portilla
- Natural law justifies dispossessing the Indians of their land / Emmerich von Vattel
- Natural law does not justify dispossessing the Indians of their land / Francisco de Vitoria
- White takeover of Indian land : a white's view / Theodore Roosevelt
- White takeover of Indian land : an Indian's view / Chief Joseph
- Indians have an equal claim to the land / John Heckewelder
- Indians are unworthy of keeping their land / Hugh Henry Brackenridge
- Natives of the Americas are noble savages / Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
- Natives of the Americas are uncivilized beasts / Cotton Mather
- A white man's view of Indian culture / George Catlin
- An Indian view of Washington, D.C. / Herman J. Viola
- Whites and Indians cannot live side by side / Lewis Cass
- Whites and Indians must learn to live side by side / Nelson A. Miles
- Indians must be educated to adopt civilized ways / T.J. Morgan
- Indians already have civilized cultures / Benjamin Franklin
- Indians should be Christianized / Abraham Steiner
- Indians wish to keep their own religion / Charles Alexander Eastman
- A white man learns about Indian culture / James Smith
- An Indian learns about white culture / Luther Standing Bear
- Modern attacks on Columbus are unwarranted / Mark Falcoff
- Modern attacks on Columbus are justified / Suzan Shown Harjo, interviewed by Barbara Miner & Michael Dorris
- History should continue to acknowledge Columbus as a discoverer / Reed Irvine, Joe Goulden
- History should acknowledge Columbus as a ruthless exploiter / Manning Marable.