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“I gave up on honoring Christopher Columbus long before the country did and have often espoused the questioning of the path trod by those we studied as the great explorers. What havoc they wreaked on the lands they explored. And who really did the exploring? The myth of the lone white man braving the new land is just that, a myth-- the local guides were the ones who knew the territory and did the work, including the work of keeping them all alive. And yet, indigenous populations explored as well, and some wreaked their own havoc on other populations at the same time that they grew worlds. History is incredibly complicated.” — Shellen Lubin
I gave up on honoring Christopher Columbus
long before the country did
and have often espoused the questioning
of the path trod by those we studied
as the great explorers.
What havoc they wreaked on the lands they explored.
And who really did the exploring?
The myth of the lone white man braving the new land is
just that, a myth--
the local guides were the ones who knew the territory
and did the work,
including the work of keeping them all alive.
And yet, indigenous populations explored as well,
and some wreaked their own havoc on other populations
at the same time that they grew worlds.
History is incredibly complicated.