Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.latimes.misc From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Goodby, Columbus Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 07:02:32 EST Message-ID: HEADLINE: Goodby, Columbus Publication Date: Sunday November 8, 1992 BYLINE: In his Oct. 25 letter to the editor regarding a recent story on the Columbus quincentennial, Steve Foster says Native Americans caused their own problems because they resisted the influx of white settlers. According to Foster, if Indians had shown "a little less racism and a little more tolerance" toward the new arrivals, life would have been easier for everyone. Foster forgets that not all Indians were hostile to the white settlers. Indians helped the settlers by introducing them to new crops, serving as their guides into the wilderness and even by fighting alongside them in battle. Indians were repaid with treaties that were soon broken and by seeing most of their population either killed or displaced. If the Indians weren't good sports about this, how can Foster blame them? MARILYN HORN Hawthorne This article is copyright 1992 The Los Angeles Times Home Edition. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM