Discovering

Abstract

With the 1992 calendar zeroing in on next year's quincentenary celebrations of Columbus's voyage and discovery of the New World, it seems timely to reflect on the incredible impact that an accidental landing on Guanahani Island in the Bahamas had on the entire native population in the Americas. It leads one to ask serious, perhaps uncomfortable, questions about the events to be celebrated and what it meant to be discovered by European explorers who took ethnocentric arrogance to dizzying heights. ...