Lesson 3-Columbus' Arrival 1492 Flashcards
Haudenosaunee Teachings about the Coming of Columbus:
● There was a young priest, who was apprenticing for the upper level priests
● He was assigned a duty to clean the old booked in the head priest’s office, here he found a different set of teachings, one that is similar to the way Haudenosaunee people know things to be
● A teacher who gave the Haudenosaunee their 4 Main Ceremonies also travelled to their land across the salt water to deliver the same teachings
● He confronted his superiors, he was punished for questioning them
● The young priest went for a walk, see a gold castle on an island
● He went to the castle and met a man who gave him 5 gifts to bring to North America
○ Cards, money, fiddle, diseased leg bone, and alcohol
● He told him to ask the queen for 3 ships, he would be given this and he would be world famous for delivering his gifts
- Tells him not to open it until he finds the people there
- This man is who he believed to be God
- They believe that it is the left handed twin giving them things to bring harm to the people
- The twins were separated (remember) so they couldn’t get to each other
- The left handed twin couldn’t come over there so he sent the man there to bring those things
- Also told to bring 2 books (school book and a Bible)
- Because it’s from the left handed twin
- Playing cards: gambling and the issues that come with that lifestyle
- Money: greed and the lengths people will go to
- Fiddle: European music and how it changes thinking and moves minds away from own music, mind altering
- Diseased leg bone: all the diseases and bad things the Europeans brought on their boats
- Alcohol: means ‘changes your thinking around’
- Told to stay away from these things to stay in a good mind
Columbus’ Arrival 1492:
● The Taino were an Indigenous people of the Caribbean
● Several peoples currently identify as Taino or Taino descendents.
○ Most notably, some Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and Cubans, both on the Caribbean islands themselves and on the US mainland identify themselves with this group
● Columbus landed on the Taino people’s shores in what is presently known as the Bahamas on Oct 12, 1492 – “Hispanola”
● Columbus believed he had reached East Asia
● The Tainos, the Ciboneys, and the Guanajatabeyes. Currently, scholars estimate that there was between 50,000-300,000 Indigenous people occupying the island at that time
Christopher Columbus Voyages
He did not “discover America he accidentally went to the Bahamas
