Problem
The author concludes by saying that Columbus is "a seminal figure in the history of colonialism" since generations of Americans have been fed the myth of Eurocentrism thus continuing the racist ideologies that we see in the U.S. today. Discuss the significance of 1992 and that date's importance for Indigenous Americans.
Reading: Heike Paul, The Myths that Made America, Chapter 1, "Christopher Columbus and the Myth of Discovery".