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CRISTOBAL COLON OCT 12, 1492 A man of his times and in his time the Spanish inquisition, under royal direction from 1483 was one whose strictures Christobal Colon would have witnessed and been careful to heed, and under whose royal jurisdiction countless millions were imprisoned and by whose decree countless hundreds of thousands were put to death. The inquisition in Spain was one of the most brutal of all injustices suffered by people unfortunate enough to be living in Spain in the fifteenth century. It was this brutal and inhumane legacy that Cristobal Colon and those who followed him brought with them when they landed on shores assumed to be the Indies, where upon he Christobal Colon promptly called the people Los Indios. It was apparent he assumed he had reached India. The greed was such that within a day or so of greeting these allegged Indians he shamelessly demanded gold tribute from the assumed citizens of India. He wrote letters to the King and Queen of Spain and recorded in his log of the gentelness of these people and how simple it would be to make slaves of them. He did in fact incarcerate many of the alleged Indians and carried them off to Spain. He then returned to the assumed lands of the Indies to further exploit the alleged indians with the full royal approval of the King and Queen of Spain. He did in fact lead the way for all those that came after him to exploit and plunder as was their want of these alleged Indian people, for was it not this same Cristobal Colon that upon his return to Spain proclaimed to all of the vast bounty of riches to be had for the takeing in the land of the Indies. And was it not this very same Cristobal Colon after being made governor of these lands assumed to be party of India by the greedy King and Queen of Spain instituted tge tribute system in 1495 by which every alleged Indian citizen over the age of fourteen had to supply to the Spanish Crown a hawks bell full of gold every three months of which Cristobal Colon share was one-tenth, those alleged Indians who did not comply with this edict were punished by having their hands cut off and left to bleed to death. On many occassions this same Cristobal Colon with apprarent approval allowed Spanish soldiers to set great war dogs upon these all alleged Indians to keep them in line. Infants, children, women, and men, none were exempt from this vicious practice. Keep in mind also that it was the same Cristobal Colon as governor that instituted slave labor of these alleged Indian people and as such became an enduring legacy of the Governors administration with the full approval of the Spanish Crown. Cristobal Colon (Christopher Columbus) and his immediate followers as many have erroneously advanced did not bring with them to this continent the culture and technology as we know it today. Many divergent people including the Pnaci people were and remain to this day contributors to the culture and subsequent technologies we on this continent know today. Here then is your hero, honor him if you must, but remember the day will come when the children who trust you will known you have lied! Pnaci (Pen-ah-see) A very old word (preserved with dignity by the elders of our race). Meaning anyone descendant from the old ones, i.e. Old Ones indigienous to this hemisphere. |