Review 1491 | 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

Wonderful new information of our continent | 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus | Charles C. Mann

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	• 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Charles C. Mann Vintage, 2006 - 541 pages average customer review:based on 196 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Alternative Native American History

Native American History buffs will enjoy this book. It helps correct the distorted impression of pre-Columbian Native American life many of us carry as a result of our early "education".

Review 1491

Excellent book breaking down the misconceptions of historical data regarding human population growth as well as cultural advances in the new world.

Wonderful new information of our continent

My whole family has enjoyed reading this new, fascinating and current look into our continent's civilization. This book is interesting and educational. It's a wonderful way to learn our history and an easy to understand format that easily keeps your attention.

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At least it shows one truth

And that one truth is that the Indians were not sitting around singing songs and building tools, but in fact were more destructive to the environment than anyone that came after them. It does not matter though because now we have people flying airplanes into buildings so it makes anything that happened in this part of history seem pretty mundane.

A great read about the peoples of the past

There's one thing I strongly disagree with Mann in this book-his claim that he will continue to perpetuate the term Indian for Native American based on the say of one person that some Natives prefer to be called Indians, instead of "Native Americans", is at most a "stupidaggine" (absurdity) as that name was concocted by ignorance! The very ignorance of Christoforo Colombo or "Cristobal Colon" who thought he had landed in India. Why do we continue to perpetuate ignorance is unbeknown to me. Unless, of course, immigrants from other lands now want to claim the title for themselves! I'm sure it wouldn't matter now, they took everything else already from Native Peoples...

I was amazed when I watched an interview with Dick Wolf by Tavis Smiley show, on PBS, He claims the Smithsonian as a source for Political correctness and the term Indian for "Native American". He surely jumped quicker than flees onto the back side of a quaking duck with American Indian. That name was concocted by ignorance, the very ignorance of Christoforo Colombo or "Cristobal Colon" who thought he had landed in India. The fact that some Native American tribes (which does NOT mean tribes in the US/Canada-but the Americas) call themselves American Indian, is part of the same filth Ales Hrdlièka and the Smithsonian spoused and actively carried out in hopes to keep out the great nations that existed and that had created a much more advanced systems, cities, than in Europe and other places by the 10 century! In fact, they were so advanced in mathematics, for example, the first culture to use zero where the Native Americans, in the South of Mexico, Guatemala, throughout Central America and South America!

I'm sure he will claim Native American for him now! The Americas, or the land of the early light, as Native Americans called these lands, was the last to be discovered and we have just started to learn about the GRAND cultures that existed here, before the Spaniars ravaged the land and its people in 1492. And then, almost 2 centuries later, came the Britons (pilgrims) who did more damaged to Native Peoples in less than 100 years, than the Spaniards did in over 400 years. The Spaniards intermerried with the Natives, the Britons killed most of them, or uprooted them from their land to inhospitable lands, far away from their homes through aparthei.

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