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The Encounter
Jan 11, 2004, 17:44
During the course of its history, North America was quite possibly unknowingly visited (or at least sighted) by Viking marauders, Basque fishermen or Irish monks. The Icelanders the only ones to have left clues of their short stay. But if they had had the chance or belonged to a big organized powerful Christian state of the time, they would have killed most of the natives and gone on a rampage in search of resources, like the English, Portuguese, French and Spanish did later on as victims of their Western XVth c neurosis. Although most Latin Americans (from Mexico to Argentina) are still the descendants of the decimated Native Americans, the population in the Caribbean and the US was almost completely exterminated and completely replaced by Africans or Europeans respectively. In all cases, whole cultures were erased. The Discovery, for them was none other than their unlucky full-on Encounter with civilization.

I have always seen this basic denial of the Native Americans, the first 'discoverers', as another sign of typical Western values and racism, where the 'savage' is a victim of history books that should be rewritten one day. As if we had nothing to learn from them... It is obvious that they had their own discoverers, heroes and explorers. Just that they never bothered writing it all down, although it was passed on from generation to generation. Surely one day justice will be done and their own histories will be learnt by all kids around the world. In the meantime, their prehistoric mounds, rock art and ritual sites are bulldozed with impunity as we speak while yet another silly neo-Stonehenge is built with broken cars. The ridiculous cycle of denial continues.
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