From the Chicanx Indigeneity and Map Lecture: When the Spanish arrived in the "Americas," Indigenous people had invented unique systems of science, art, and writing. They had built some of the world’s largest cities aligned with the stars and created governments from empires to America's first democracy. This means that Columbus, and other colonizers, were destroying entire systems, societies, civilisations, governing structures, traditions, belief systems, ways of being, valuation systems, and knowledge in favor of the narrative that indigenous people were nothing and had nothing to offer."
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