Discovering

With the 1992 calendar zeroing in on next year's quincentenary celebrations of Columbus's voyage and discovery of the New World, it seems timely to reflect on the incredible impact that an accidental landing on Guanahani Island in the Bahamas had on the entire native population in the Amer...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:ARCTIC
Main Author: Schledermann, Peter
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1991
Subjects:
Exploration
Human rights
Native land claims
Native peoples
Norse
Sovereignty
Alaska
Canada
Canadian Arctic
Greenland
North American Arctic
Arctic
Online Access:https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64602
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Summary:With the 1992 calendar zeroing in on next year's quincentenary celebrations of Columbus's voyage and discovery of the New World, it seems timely to reflect on the incredible impact that an accidental landing on Guanahani Island in the Bahamas had on the entire native population in the Americas. It leads one to ask serious, perhaps uncomfortable, questions about the events to be celebrated and what it meant to be discovered by European explorers who took ethnocentric arrogance to dizzying heights. .

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