Chapter 1 COLON, INDIGENOUS AND HUMAN PROGRESS

Chapter 1 Colon, indigenous and human progress of the book “A People's History of the United States, "by Howard Zinn, published in 1980. Explains landing Christopher Columbus on American soil Antilles Islands, Cuba and Hispaniola (Haiti and Republica Dominicana) Colon began to take control of land and natural resources in indigenous his expeditions. In chapter Zinn seeks to present American history telling us about past where the level of democracy and American growth then was able national which millions of Indians were passing the days slowly dying different ways because of the cruel policy of Colon against him, I call " Indians " as well tells how was the European invasion of the Indian settlements populated starting with the indigenous Arawaks of the Caribbean Islands , after the conquest by Christopher Columbus kingdom slavery and mass murder of Native Americans.

Colon he realized that Arawak men and women were extraordinary Indians with great hospitality the sharing , that was where Colon decided then somehow use he owned slaves making him, to give him information on who had in those places the unknown , specifically to give information on where I could get gold, Colon convinced that existed in those lands gold and other things with value able to convince the kings of Spain with its exaggerated report and promises to fund their expedition in exchange for the contribution of gold and slaves.

Zinn charged Christopher Columbus and other explorers like Cortes and Pizarro committing a cruel policy of genocide against indigenous to becoming owners their lands and natural resources. Other points proposed by the article of the chapter is the description of Bartolomé de las Casas to the Indian society which describes the Indians with a lack of sense of trade, generous temperament benign and peaceful. We have Samuel Eliot Monson ( Harvard historian ) who we described in a book the cruel policy initiated by Columbus , but despite describes the cruel policy of Colon at the end of his book indicates that such cruelty was a Colon quality that led him to make a great outstanding in his ability as sailor.

The view of Zinn to tell the story of America is different because it indicates that we must not accept the memory of the United States as a thing own, nations are not communities and never have been. In this chapter I will not I infer anything narrated by Zinn, since I very much agree Fashion that the recounts and makes critical about U.S. history.

The article is based on opinions, personal experiences and a slight search literature by various authors of other books that tell the history of the United States from another perspective, Zinn interferes doing several reviews disagree with what reported by other authors on the history of the United States. The approach discussed in the Chapter 1 is to let us know how indigenous socially lived at that time, dominated by the Spaniards lived them being mistreated, humiliated, until the end dying of hunger, long hours of work or being killed cruelly. In policy only commanded the kingdom of Spain.

Europeans were economically growing in wealth thanks to the natural riches of gold and seed possessed Indians. I agree as reading the text of Chapter 1 with approach of the author and not intended in this chapter relate anything that has not passed at the time of conquest and slavery, even the author makes his own criticism concerning other authors intend to deceive the public relating what that really did not happen in the time of Columbus and Indians. Recommendations the author are related in the chapter are appropriate, as it presents relevant points on making history with critical evidence supporting the reason for the review, for example, indicates that the historian cannot help but emphasize some facts and forget other Such as the fact emphasize the heroism of Columbus and his successors as navigators and discoverers, and to

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