Accept our king, our god − or else: The senseless ‘requirement’ Spanish colonizers used to justify their bloodshed in the Americas
- Written by Diego Javier Luis, Assistant Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University
Part of 'The Baptism of Ixtlilxóchitl of Texcoco,' painted by José Vivar y Valderrama in the 18th century.Museo Nacional de Historia via Wikimedia CommonsAcross the United States, the second Monday of October is increasingly becoming known as Indigenous Peoples Day. In the push to rename Columbus Day, Christopher Columbus himself has...