"Christopher Colombus is a symbol, not of a man, but of imperialism. Imperialism and colonialism are not something that happened decades ago or generations ago, but they are still happening now with the exploitation of people. ... The kind of thing that took place long ago in which people were dispossessed from their land and forced out of subsistence economies and into market economies -- those processes are still happening today."
-John Mohawk, Seneca, 1992
Colombus was a sadistic rapist, exploiter and conqueror. He did not discover America, he pillaged a land of many nations that he found already inhabited. The best thing we can say about Colombus is that he’s dead. -JC