Columbus 1492-1992 Quincentenary Protest Files Index of files available via anonymous ftp from ftp.css.itd.umich.edu or redspread.css.itd.umich.edu in the directory /nn/1492. bytes pathname brief description of contents 8428 essay/aim-statement 12/91 AIM statement on Columbus Day 14033 essay/awair-essay Arab World & Islamic Resources 1492 essay 14040 essay/guatemala-conf 10/91 2nd Continental Congress rpt&manifesto 11346 essay/herstory David Yarrow account of Christopher Columbus 20935 essay/heyerdahl-talk Thor Heyerdahl salutes Columbus in Cuba 2603 essay/indian-child Janeen Antoine statement on Columbus 5791 essay/kuna-statement Kuna Indians (Panama) on 500 Yrs Meetings 21693 essay/newsweekchalng Newsweek on 1492 challenge-fighting strategy 16815 essay/peopleshistory Zinn's _People's_History of the US_ on 1492 5712 essay/weatherford Jack Weatherford on Columbus' reputation 13812 essay/winona-laduke "We Are Still Here - 500 Years Celebration" 18579 event/current/bayarea-events California Bay Area events, October 1992 3059 event/current/denver-action American Indian Movement 1992 Denver protest 7095 event/current/environ-events Bay Area (CA) events from environmental orgs 98962 event/current/hgw-detail Healing Global wounds 10/92 protest details 7260 event/current/hgw-intro HGW (Nevada test site) 10/92 action overview 1523 event/current/indiana-event Indiana Univ. 11-hour Columbus Day event 12690 event/current/stlouis-event Columbus Day event planned (?) for St. Louis 4633 event/past/conferences 1492-related conferences already held 10301 event/past/denver-action American Indian Movement 1991 Denver protest 2995 event/past/guyana-commem Guyana American Indian protest Columbus 1818 event/past/hum-rts-conf Rosary College human rights conference 3279 event/past/panama-pilgrim Ecumenical Journey for Peace&Life (Spanish) 4322 media/deep-dish-tv Deep Dish TV call for programming (10/91) 14185 media/pbs-series protest PBS "Columbus & Age of Discovery" 3169 media/van-homelands NPR "Vanishing Homelands" series (late '91) 6188 media/carib-ghosts 10/91 news stories about Columbus Day 26874 misc/1492-stories brief Columbus history, misc current news 5453 misc/haiti-tourism Haiti tourism centre project (init. 9/91) 5308 misc/jamaica-poll Jamaica: Should we salute/execute Columbus? 3218 misc/latinam-damage Latim Am Council of Churches: restore damage 1656 myths/wfp-intro intro. to Witness for Peace "Myths" series 17344 myths/01-92 The individual files here contain a series 15341 myths/02-92 of articles which provide the history 16158 myths/03-92 of the Columbus exploration and its 16960 myths/04-92 aftermath, particularly the effects 17027 myths/05-92 on indigenous populations of North 14199 myths/06-92 America and the severe damage to their 10242 myths/07-92 cultures, including ongoing patterns 16093 myths/08-92 of U.S. policy in Central America 9131 myths/09-92 10875 myths/10-91 3469 myths/10-92 11444 myths/11-91 16792 myths/12-91 27194 organizations/congr-ind-orgs Congress of Indian Orgs. of Central America 1575 organizations/info-request Ecumenical Program on Central Am+Carribean 5998 organizations/introductions introductions from orgs & activist persons 1902 organizations/500yrs-resist 500 Yrs of Resistance campaign (London, UK) 2294 organizations/misc-orgs Munich, Santa Monica, Toronto organizations 2335 printed/500yrs-booklet EPICA Continental Campaign booklet info. 4564 printed/500yrs-reader Resource Center for Non-Violence booklet 3768 printed/books Las Casas / Koenig books 2770 printed/las-casas.book Las Casas: Devastation of the Indies (1542) 447 printed/nacla-report biological consequences of 1492 & aftermath 1418 printed/new-visions MOBE "New Visions, New Alliances" booklet 2275 resources/canadaradiopgm CFRU-FM (Guelph, Ontario) 1492 program tapes 5287 resources/org-resources SAIIC resources, description of organization 6434 resources/teach-resource teaching resources for 1492 Quincentennial These files are the product of one year's dialogues concerning the 1492-1992 Five Hundred Years Anniversary (Quincentenary / Quincentennial) of the voyage of exploration undertaken by Christopher Columbus, with special reference to the devastating effects of that voyage and its aftermath on the native peoples of the Americas. 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