Christopher Columbus and the Taino people
(2023)
By:
Messner, Kate
Nonfiction
Book
Series:
Call Numbers:
J/970.015/MESSNER,K
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Random House, [2023]
©2023
©2023
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
188 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780593564271, 0593564278, 9780593564264, 059356426X, 9798855090918, 9781516044023, 1516044029, 9780593564271, 0593564278
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed across the ocean and discovered America. Right? Wrong! Columbus never actually set foot in what is now the United States. His voyages took him to islands in the Caribbean and along the coast of South America. The truth is, when Columbus first arrived, Indigenous peoples, including the Taino, had been living there for thousands of years, raising their families, running their societies, and trading with their neighbors. He didn't "discover" the lands at all! And his name? Not even really Christopher Columbus!"--
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CONTENTS
Christopher Columbus, man and myth --
A tale of two worlds --
To sea! --
The people who discovered Columbus --
Back and forth across the sea --
The third voyage --
One last trip --
What happened next --
The Taino people today --
The legacy of Christopher Columbus --
A timeline of Columbus and the Taino people