This article was a very interesting read. It was amazing to see how different we were taught about Christopher Columbus in school, compared to what really happened. The way that Christopher Columbus was portrayed to me in school was a hero who came over and discovered America, and showed Native Americans different things and traded with them. We were also taught that Native Americans willing did these things when it was not true at all. Christopher Columbus was violent and introduced slavery in America and Spain. I chose this political cartoon to represent the reading because it shows to Native Americans questioning why both Osama Bin Laden and Columbus are not both being treated as terrorist. As Americans we think of Bin Laden as one but not Columbus because he was a European who "did this great deed." Which was discovering America and doing all of these great things for Native Americans.
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