@ Wordsmith

That was the point I was pushing, wasn’t it?

I thought I saw it in there somewhere.

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@Aqua #12:

I don’t think I buy into the Army handing out smallpox infected blankets.

That was the point I was pushing, wasn’t it?

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I thought he was dead?

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They say you shouldn’t criticize farmers with your mouth full. It can also be said that Indians, or indigenous peoples (Aztecs, Incas and Mayans, too), should not criticize the Spanish (who commissioned Columbus) while sitting on their horses. For it was Columbus and the Spanish that brought horses to North, Central and South America.

Point being: It could be said that the conquering Europeans brought much good to the Americas. No reason to trample on the achievements of Columbus; he was a very capable navigator.

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The other glaring blind spot of the left-hate-Columbus is the fact that this was a very brave and intelligent person who gave up eveything and litterally begged his way accross the Atlantic Ocean to pursue a vision that the world was round. Think of the dinky little boats he had and the total unknown that he and his men faced. Just like our Congress today. NOT! God, just the sheer undertaking alone not even considering the personal hardships that they all faced would have stopped most men. This man is a real HERO of the biblical kind.

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@ suek

Um, no, some of the Settlers had smallpox. It wasn’t done intentionally.

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>>Everything I’ve ever read or heard about how the Blackfoot contracted smallpox was through trading horses with Settlers. >>

As in…they gave him lodging while they were trading and he was thereby infected by contaminated blankets??? otherwise…what do horses have to do with it?? Horses are definitely not carriers…! That theory seems like _really_ a stretch!!

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@ Wordsmith

I don’t think I buy into the Army handing out smallpox infected blankets. Everything I’ve ever read or heard about how the Blackfoot contracted smallpox was through trading horses with Settlers.

And Ward Churchill is a tool. I don’t know how anyone could believe anything he says.

As for Columbus, he was a great explorer. That is how he should be remembered.

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@ Aqua/Wordsmith

I was thinking more precisly about during the time of Columbus himself, nobody on the planet knew what Smallpox was, let alone how it spread. Humans of all cultures had barely any knowledge at all about germs, virus’, and patholgy.

-That said, both of your comments are very informative.

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Ward Churchill is certifiably insane. He is the perfect example of why our schools are under attack by unAmerican freaks. I see why schools kids are not performing in “reading, writing, and ‘rithmetic”. They are being brainwashed to believe that people like Churchhill are the only ones to save them from total idiocy. What a crock! Ward Churchill and his ilk needs to be put to sleep.
Madalyn

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