The opposite side of the story to our extraordinary American history is not as beautiful as they show us in review school. The American Holocaust by David Stannard is a novel brimming with live passages from observers to the genocide of the American Indians. He ventures to depict what life was in all likelihood like before Europeans went to the Americas and devastated the "Heaven" so portrayed. Columbus even composed how excellent the spots were in which he submitted acts against the Natives so awful, it was difficult to peruse about, not to mention discuss. The Natives were so guiltless and gullible, that when Columbus would "demonstrate to them his sword" they would snatch the end and essentially cut open their hand. These individuals had
