However a  Panel Discussion, "Legacies of Columbus", is scheduled at Syracuse University sponsored by La Casita Cultural Center and the SU Native American Studies Department. intended to look beyond Columbus? legend to make a critical examination of his impact on indigenous peoples, South and Central Americans

It is disengeous, hypocritical, and deeply dishonest for Native Americans and Latinos to Pile All the Blame for their Greivances, including Genocide on Columbus, the Explorer, and give NO attention to The SPANISH and PORTUGUESE (Latino) CONQUISTADORS, and their successor LATINO Colonialstic and Imperialistic Spanish and Portuguese Empires. 

Dare you not leave Juan Ponce de Leon, Cabeza de Vaca, Cortez, Bernal Diaz, Pedro Alvarado, Francisco de Montejo, Francisco Coronado, Francisco Pizarro, Franciso Nunez de Balboa, Diego Almagro, of 35 NOTABLE Conquisadors, and many other lesser ones out of the Discussion.

Nor should you leave out how the Indigenous People collaborated with the CONQUISTADORS when they were promised help to vanquish their tribal enemies!!!!!!!!!! 

If ou are looking for an Enemy. LOOK IN THE MIRROR !!!!!!!!!

The Conquistador Phenomenon     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquistador

Those who OPENED UP the Americas to PLUNDER were: Juan Ponce de Leon in 1512, who named Florida and  Cabeza de Vaca followed up his discovery, and in a search for gold, traveled right across Florida, through Texas and to the Pacific before returning overland to Mexico. The two together began the charting of what would eventually become the United States.

Hernan Cortez was the original, and in many respects the quintessential conquistador. The chronicle by his junior officer, Bernal Diaz, shows him preaching first and fighting later and executes canny politicking, bringing together the cities who resented Aztec rule, winning their loyalty by defeating other, lesser enemies for them. He always prefaced battle with the offer of conversion to Christianity and submission to Spain, and then pursued those who refused with all the fury of a Crusader of legend. Both this example and the sheer wealth his campaign generated secured his position as governor of Mexico.

With the Aztec Empire?s heartland in Cortez?s clutches, his officers often went forth into other parts of the Americas, following trade routes or rumours of Golden Cities and Fountains of Youth. Cortez himself or the Crown would issue permits for the conquistador leader to organize a fighting force and embark for parts unknown. Merchants of means, enticed by the New World?s wealth would often put up capital to raise forces to conquer new dominions.

Pedro Alvarado, Cortez?s right-hand man and notoriously vicious, was sent South and promptly accomplished the conquest of the Highland Maya. Conversely, with an official charter to conquer the Yucatan, Francisco de Montejo floundered for a decade in the jungle for an ultimately incomplete victory.

The Inca and South America

Mercantile backing also carried Francisco Pizarro south from Panama, which he had traveled to via the Caribbean with Franciso Nunez de Balboa to conquer, south into Peru, and the conquest of the Inca Empire. This success accomplished, other conquistadors, notably Pizarro?s rival Diego Almagro, forged further south into Chile and Argentina, though in the immediate period achieved little.

DAMN, an ITALIAN Accomplishes a GREAT EXPLORATION and DISCOVERY, and the Spanish and Portuguese do all the SLAUGHTER,(at the beginning, later the Dutch, French, and British in North America), and COLUMBUS Gets ALL the CREDIT ?????? 

[The article explains that The Parade will Not be held this year, because organizational pronlems, but will be resumed next yrear, and that the Wreath Laying Ceremonies, and the Luncheon will proceed as usual.] 

The panel discussion, "Legacies of Columbus", is scheduled for 7 p.m. at Grant Auditorium at the Syracuse University College of Law. The program is intended to look beyond Columbus? legend to make a critical examination of his impact on indigenous peoples, South and Central Americans, border crossers and boundary makers.

Panelists include Audra Simpson, assistant professor of anthropology at Columbia University; Gladys McCormick, assistant professor of history at SU, and Silvio Torres-Saillant, an SU English professor. The event is sponsored by La Casita Cultural Center and the SU Native American Studies Department. Admission is free.

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