Christopher_Colombus_Perception_Versus_Reality

Christopher Colombus Perception Versus Reality In any average elementary school of Anywhere, U.S.A students learn about Christopher Columbus and the Indians at and early age. Normally, Columbus is portrayed as the “hero” that “sailed the ocean blue in 1492” to discovered America. Jointly, the Indians are often portrayed as feather head-dress-wearing, tee-pee dwelling Neanderthals who killed for personal gain. A close examination of both Columbus and the Indians would illustrate and entirely different view. Native American culture varied tremendously in North America previous to European involvement. Prehistoric people migrated from Siberia across the Bering Straight to Alaska some 14,000 years before Columbus “discovered” America. These migrants spread across North America and formed thousands of different ethnic groups or tribes. Each group was individually unique, but most were far more advanced than the early Europeans acknowledge. By the time of European encounter most tribes had developed methodological social structures. Some of these were quite similar to European customs, with a basis or distinct class with “kings” in rule. The majority of tribes had been in use of advance agricultural skills for thousands of years. The Plains Indians of the western states had developed “maps” in order to columbus, arawak, america, tribes, gold, american, culture, indians, history, seen, europeans, based, thousands, taught, states, european, zinn, years, voyage, view, story, spain, slaves, school, sail, portrayed, personal, page, one, new, men, historical, gain, eyes, discovered