Talk:Native Americans and Christianity

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I started to change this, but then i stopped, incase the primary author wants to make this an Essay space, and not an article. It really is not article style, and i think it would make a good stripped down article, but i also like it as an Essay. or both? I'm making the changes I'd suggest if this is a wiki article, in a user space, so the original doesn't get bollixed.
 * I think with a lot of work this is an on-mission mainspace article. With a lot of work. P-Foster (talk) 00:28, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
 * User:WaitingforGodot/indians This is what I'm doodling with.  It's a good start (his essay), it just needs lots of wikifying. --[[Image:sun mowse.png|25px]]En attendant Godot  00:31, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Can you not just edit the article here, since it's an article here in the mainspace? I've already done a bunch of work on one section and if two or more people are editing it in two separate spaces that's not really efficient. P-Foster (talk) 00:35, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
 * That is true. Ok, digging in... :-) --[[Image:sun mowse.png|25px]]En attendant Godot  00:40, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
 * *leers menacingly then sticks his elbows out, cranes his neck, and crouches down, hovering on the balls of his feet, obviously ready to spring into action like an armed fucking bear trap* I will cut you if you edit conflict P-Foster. Watch yourself. [[file:Nuttysexpistols.png|60px|link=User:Nutty Roux|Nutty Roux]][[file:Nuttytalk.png|35px|link=User_talk:Nutty_Roux|never mind]] 00:46, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
 * This could get ugly. ;-)  [[Image:sun mowse.png|25px]]En attendant Godot  00:49, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Nutty's always got my back. He's my 300-lb Samoan attorney. P-Foster (talk) 01:03, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Hot damn. I've finally used my PhD dissertation for something!  Now if i can work in black elk speaks and his conversion.... ;-)--[[Image:sun mowse.png|25px]]En attendant Godot  01:46, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
 * As your attorney, I advise you to take a hit out of the small brown bottle in my shaving kit. [[file:Nuttysexpistols.png|60px|link=User:Nutty Roux|Nutty Roux]][[file:Nuttytalk.png|35px|link=User_talk:Nutty_Roux|never mind]] 02:16, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Hah, do i have lots of those attorney things hanging out. Unable to get work, I ended up doing research for a Law firm in Co that specilzes in native law. it's a living.  ;-)--[[Image:sun mowse.png|25px]]En attendant Godot  02:29, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

San Salvador Island
Something about this article that sticks out is the problematic historicity of the "4,000,000 killed" claim made regarding Columbus' activities on San Salvador Island. That number appears to be drawn from http://americanindiansource.com/columbusday.html, which itself makes the claim without citation. Read its narrative for yourselves, but it asserts he and his Spaniards eradicated millions on the island over a four-year period (something I haven't been able to find elsewhere). I dunno, but that seems impossible; the island has only 63 square miles of land to it, which is about three times the size of Manhattan, but with that many millions of people it would have a similar density to modern Manhattan. Today the island supports less than a thousand residents. However one regards the man, this strikes me as more hyperbolic than factual.