Technology Quote by Richard Kluger

“Before the first settlers arrived on American shores, a massive plague, or series of plagues, had essentially annihilated the indigenous peoples. They”

— Evan Currie

“Throughout the Americas, diseases introduced with Europeans spread from tribe to tribe far in advance of the Europeans themselves, killing an estimated 95 percent…

— Jared Diamond

“By comparison, the dispossession and destruction of Indigenous populations—which the Society, for one, consistently linked to slavery—was largely ignored by the public. For the…

— Stefanos Geroulanos

“Therefore, good-bye Columbus? Balzac once suggested that all great fortunes are founded on a crime. So too all great civilizations. The European conquest of…

— Charles Krauthammer

There are more American Indians alive today than there were when Columbus arrived or at any other time in history. Does this sound like…

— Rush Limbaugh

Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.

— Charles Darwin

“Before Columbus, Holmberg believed, both the people and the land had no real history. Stated so baldly, this notion-that the indigenous peoples of the…

— Charles C. Mann

“There is no doubt that the destiny of indigenous races has been tragic in the process of contact with European invasion… The historian of…

— Bronisław Malinowski

“The form of colonialism that the Indigenous peoples of North America have experienced was modern from the beginning: the expansion of European corporations, backed…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

“Europeans killed many native people directly without the assistance of disease. In some instances, they intentionally used disease as a biological weapon by, for…

— Douglas Preston

Columbus saved the Indians from themselves.

— Rush Limbaugh

“COLUMBUS BROUGHT SMALLPOX TO THE NATIVES; WE SHALL RECALL THE OCCASION WITH A PICNIC!”

— John Green