‘It could have been a very different history’: Researchers are finally starting to pin down how many Indigenous people were living in the Americas when Columbus arrived
When Christopher Columbus made landfall in America on October 12, 1492, he encountered indigenous Lucayans living on the Bahamas island now called San Salvador. Columbus wrote in his diary about “great crowds of men” who greeted him that day, exchanged with him, and told him about other groups living on nearby islands. But within a … Read more
