Ashley+Konkol's+Editoral

Columbus a hero? That’s a lie. He may be a so called “hero” to his land, but to mine he is villain. He killed my people with disease like [|bubonic plague] and [|syphilis]. I remember the day Columbus and the other white men came to us. It was a hot day and I was planting seeds when a few men came running towards yelling “Large boats! White men!” Some people freaked and others where excited. I was confused. They rode in on large, four legged beasts. They where white men with hair on their face. At first my people showed kindness to them but soon they became out enemy. They used their metal weapons. The Columbus man thought he was some kind of hero. He claimed this land in the name of his country and the Queen of Spain. They took our resources like food, for example the potato, they took a turkey, and they took tobacco. After many months some went back on their ship, others stayed. Then, after many months more returned. Many ships and people arrived. They moved in our land or they went to the land above ours. They took over our world. They brought another beast, one with a snout, a short tail, and snorted. They called it a “pig”. We thought the gods where punishing us. Columbus opened up a whole new world for his people. I heard they praised him and the Queen of Spain for his finding. The people took anything they could find; gold, animals, and plants, many of our food we harvested. This was no longer our land, it was theirs. The trees started to disappear as they chopped it down to make houses or send it back to their land. Soon the land was a new world. Our resources and people decreased as there population increased. Christopher Columbus is no hero. He is a villain.