Lies My Teacher Told Me

Conquest of Paradise, 374, is unsure that Columbus reached Iceland. The Norse findings were known in Europe, according to James ...

36 De Soto’s only geopolitical significance was smallpox, which he left among the Indians, and which left their populations much ...

1991), 9-10. See also Sale, The Conquest of Paradise, 51-52. 42 Las Casas, History of the Indies, 21. 43 Sale, The Conquest of P ...

53 Ibid., 23. 54 The Log of Christopher Columbus’s First Voyage to America in the Year 1492, as copied out in brief by Las Casas ...

66 Smallpox, usually the big killer, probably did not appear on the island until after 1516. 67 Benjamin Keen, “Black Legend,” i ...

76 Jeffrey Hart, “Discovering Columbus,” National Review, 10/15/1990, 56- 57. 77 Sale, The Conquest of Paradise, 129. 78 Quoted ...

Europe with Columbus and His Crew?” Burlington Free Press, 7/31/1992, 3D. 88 See also Williams, Documents of West Indian History ...

38, re Cartier. Weatherford, Indian Givers, 30, re Drake. Regarding Lewis and Clark, one textbook, American History, gives full ...

CHAPTER 3: THE TRUTH ABOUT THE FIRST THANKSGIVING 1 Michael Dorris, “Why I’m Not Thankful for Thanksgiving” (New York: Council o ...

or other illnesses after exposure to the elements, they do not get sick from the cold but in the cold, because their bodily defe ...

Nash, eds., Struggle and Survival in Colonial America (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1981), 231-37. ...

33 Ibid., 202-15. 34 Simpson, Invisible Armies, 35. 35 Dobyns, Their Number Become Thinned. 36 David Quummen, “Columbus and Subm ...

Disease,” Discover, October 1992, 64-73; Dobyns, Their Number Become Thinned, 42; Jennings, Invasion of America, 16-30; Simpson, ...

Pilgrim leadership insisted on returning to Provincetown and eventually New Plymouth. Conspiracy theorists take this to be a cha ...

63 All five had names other than Squanto orTisquantum, but Indians sometimes went by different names in different tribes. Squant ...

England: Penguin, 1986), 37, regarding Plymouth Rock. See also Michael Kammen, Mystic Chords of Memory (New York: Alfred A. Knop ...

CHAPTER 4: RED EYES 1 James Axtell, “Europeans, Indians, and the Age of Discovery in American History Textbooks,” American Histo ...

more up-to-date in their interpretations. I call Native individuals by their Native names, after introducing them by their Nativ ...

not the point our authors were making. 18 Again, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Not nearly enough archaeology h ...

28 Gary Nash, Red, White, and Black (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1974), 257; James Axtell, The European and the Indian ...