![]() Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki), editor of the Greenfield Review This is truly a book that deserves (and needs) to be in every school library. The good news about the second edition is that it remains just as readable and interesting while adding much new material. Since its first publication, Rethinking Columbus has been a valuable resource for librarians, teachers, and all those interested in using both of their ears to hear this complex story. Thus we have the ability to listen to both sides. ![]() an exciting treasure for teachers, students, and the general public. In the revised edition we get even richer material, a marvelous compendium of history, literature, original sources, commentary. The original edition made educational history by introducing a startling new view of Columbus. Rethinking Columbus is packed with useful teaching ideas for kindergarten through college. More than 80 essays, poems, interviews, historical vignettes, and lesson plans reevaluate the myth of Columbus and issues of indigenous rights. Understanding what really happened to them in 1492 is key to understanding why people suffer the same injustices today. Their stories, too often suppressed, tell of of 500 years of courageous struggle, and the lasting wisdom of native peoples. We need to hear from those whose lands and rights were taken away by those who “discovered” them. We need to listen to a wider range of voices. It says nothing about the brutality of the European invasion of North America. The murky legend of a brave adventurer tells children whose version of history to accept, and whose to ignore. Columbus is often a child’s first lesson about encounters between different cultures and races. ![]() Why rethink Christopher Columbus? Because the Columbus myth is a foundation of children’s beliefs about society.
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