The Colombus Quincentenary and the Politics of the "Encounter"
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ariana Hernández-Reguant
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 17, no. 1, Special Issue on International Year of Indigenous Peoples: Discovery and Human Rights, 1993, pp. 17-35
Description
Looks at how the official Spanish discourse disregarded any historical debate and avoided any reference to Aboriginal or Indigenous issues, but used the quincentenary as a propanda tool for their own purposes.