sofriel:

weaverbabyy:

yarr-metis:

soydulcedeleche:

accurate.

YES. Now I really want to read it.

WHAT.

(TRIGGER: suicide, genocide) I got this when it was super on sale but never managed to read it. I read the first chapter or two, about the first arrival of Europeans to Hispaniola, and it made me so upset I had to stop. I mean, it wasn’t anything I didn’t already know, but Zinn does such a disturbingly amazing job at describing the desperation of the indigenous people of the island that it ended up being rather triggering. The part that got me was the description of the mass suicides when people realized that their options were to die from disease, be killed by the Spaniards, or kill themselves. It hits a little too close to the fact that Native suicide rates are still so high, and the choice is often still, after five hundred years, colonization or death.