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[https://theconversation.com/accept-our-king-our-god-or-else-the-senseless-requirement-spanish-colonizers-used-to-justify-their-bloodshed-in-the-americas-223527 by Diego Javier Luis 2/10/24 THE CONVERSATION] | [https://theconversation.com/accept-our-king-our-god-or-else-the-senseless-requirement-spanish-colonizers-used-to-justify-their-bloodshed-in-the-americas-223527 by Diego Javier Luis 2/10/24 THE CONVERSATION] | ||
Across the United States, the second Monday of October is increasingly becoming known as Indigenous Peoples Day. In the push to rename Columbus Day, Christopher Columbus himself has become a metaphor for the evils of early colonial empires, and rightly so. | Across the United States, the second Monday of October is increasingly becoming known as Indigenous Peoples Day. In the push to rename Columbus Day, Christopher Columbus himself has become a metaphor for the evils of early colonial empires, and rightly so. | ||
=====Impact of Spanish Colonization===== | |||
[https://www.nps.gov/articles/impact-of-spanish-colonization.htm by Jonathan Cordero National Park Service] | |||
Prior to the arrival of the Spanish in 1769, the indigenous peoples of the San Francisco Peninsula, the Ramaytush, numbered about 2,000 persons. They were divided into ten independent tribes along the San Francisco Peninsula. | |||
