. . . Rethinking Columbus . . .

Christopher Columbus & Columbus Day

• Transform Columbus Day Alliance
  
  
• Parked on Stolen Land - A Columbus Day parking ticket
  
  
• Reconsider Columbus Day
  
  
• Why Rethink Columbus? from Canku Ota
  
  
• Columbus, My Enemy - Historical account of a Caribbean chief who resisted the first Spanish invaders.
  
  
• Christopher Columbus & the Indians by Howard Zinn
  
  
• Columbus Day by Jimmie Durham, Cherokee (from the book of the same name)
  
  
• Examining the Reputation of Christopher Columbus by Jack Weatherford
  
  
• Why AIM Opposes Columbus Day
  
  
• Columbus' Legacy of Genocide by Ward Churchill
  
  
• Not All Italians Love Columbus by Mickey Z.
  
  
• Rethinking Columbus Day by Patrick Gavin
  
  
• The Lost Mariner by Elizabeth Kolbert
  
  
• Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies by Bartoleme de Las Casas (1542)
  
  
• Why Did Columbus Sail? Revealing essay concerning the role religion played in Columbus' endeavors.
  
  
• Columbus & the Colonial Legacy from New Internationalist...
  
  
• Columbus and Genocide from American Heritage Magazine...
  
  
• Columbus: The "Original American Hero"
  
  
• Even more to read: A long list of articles & essays on Columbus & related subjects from a variety of perspectives...
  
  
• Another fun guy: Lord Jeffrey Amherst & the Case of the Small Pox Blankets
  
  

First Peoples

• First Nations - An extraordinary & extensive site devoted to all things American Indian: history, tribal indexes, contemporary struggles & more. Be sure to check out 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance.
  
  
• NativeWeb - International, nonprofit, educational organization dedicated to using telecommunications including computer technology and the Internet to disseminate information from and about indigenous nations, peoples, and organizations around the world
  
  
• Taino - History & culture of this ancient Caribbean tribe, first victims of the American Holocaust.
  
  
• Oyate - The best source for children's books by and about American Indians.
  
  
• United American Indians of New England
  
  
• Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
  
  
• Support the Oneida
  
  
• AIM - American Indian Movement
  

• Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years edited by Bill Bigelow & Bob Peterson (Rethinking Schools, 1998)
  
  
• Lies My Teacher Told Me About Columbus: What Your History Books Got Wrong by James Loewen (New Press, 1992) - his other titles are worth checking out as well.
  
  
• American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World by David E. Stannard (Oxford, 1992) -- read some excerpts ...
  
  
• 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann (Knopf, 2005) -- read some excerpts 1, 2 ...
  
  
• A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust & Denial in the Americas, 1492 to the Present by Ward Churchill (City Lights Books, 1997)
  
  
• Columbus: His Enterprise - Exploding the Myth by Hans Koning (Monthly Review Press, 1991)
  
  
• Christopher Columbus & the Conquest of Paradise by Kirkpatrick Sale (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
  
  
• Stolen Continents: 500 Years of Conquest & Resistance in the Americas by Ronald Wright (Houghton Mifflin, 2005)
  
  
• A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolome de Las Casas (Penguin, 1992)
  
  
• Columbus & the Ends of the Earth: Europe's Prophetic Rhetoric as Conquering Ideology by Djelal Kadir (University of California, 1992)
  
  
• American Indian Holocaust & Survival: A Population History Since 1492 (Civilization of the American Indian, Vol. 186) by Russell Thornton (University of Oklahoma, 1990)
  
  
• Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors by James Reston (Random House, 2005)
  
  
• Inquiry in Action: Teaching Columbus by Avram Barlowe (Teachers College Press, 2006)