As Howard Zinn informed his readers of a quote from Columbus in his book A People’s History of the United States, “The Arawak men and women traded everything they owned for beads and bells. They would make fine servants.” The Arawak welcomed the strangers, then were stripped of their freedoms. They were raped, their bodies were mutilated, they were murdered, punished for their beliefs, sold like property, families were split up, and they were forced to live on small reservations, which are still actively binding Native American lives between inequality and disregarded freedoms as citizens in the United
As Howard Zinn informed his readers of a quote from Columbus in his book A People’s History of the United States, “The Arawak men and women traded everything they owned for beads and bells. They would make fine servants.” The Arawak welcomed the strangers, then were stripped of their freedoms. They were raped, their bodies were mutilated, they were murdered, punished for their beliefs, sold like property, families were split up, and they were forced to live on small reservations, which are still actively binding Native American lives between inequality and disregarded freedoms as citizens in the United