One of John S. Hall's best pieces. Fairly self- explanatory, but thought-provoking and worthy of comment nonetheless. Demonstrates genocidal conduct of a culture and how our basic understanding of such events is flawed- down to the very words that signify the events themselves, and is misunderstood even by those trying to understand them.
For more on this topic (which I would guess that Hall has read, based on these lyrics) see Howard Zinn's book, A People's History of the United States. Wiki describes Chapter 1as follows: "'Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress' covers early Native American civilization in North America and the Bahamas, the genocide and slavery committed by the crew of Christopher Columbus, and the violent colonization by early settlers."
One of John S. Hall's best pieces. Fairly self- explanatory, but thought-provoking and worthy of comment nonetheless. Demonstrates genocidal conduct of a culture and how our basic understanding of such events is flawed- down to the very words that signify the events themselves, and is misunderstood even by those trying to understand them. For more on this topic (which I would guess that Hall has read, based on these lyrics) see Howard Zinn's book, A People's History of the United States. Wiki describes Chapter 1as follows: "'Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress' covers early Native American civilization in North America and the Bahamas, the genocide and slavery committed by the crew of Christopher Columbus, and the violent colonization by early settlers."