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American Genocide: Columbus and the colonization of the Native Americans Introduction David Stannard`s American Holocaust (1992) chronicled how the Native American population as a whole had been largely exterminated since the arrival of the Spaniards. The first chapter of Howard Zinn`s Voices of a People`s History of the United States (2004) also showed how Columbus and the Spanish colonizers as a whole committed atrocious crimes against the people of Hispaniola and how these people resisted the enslavement and eventual genocide before the Spanish Royal Council. Thus, it can be seen how the Spaniards only brought repugnant devastation upon the Native American population which is clearly unlike the accounts of the colonizers themselves, such as Columbus. Body Early European explorers attest to the large number of population and the vast expanse of territory in the areas now known as California. According to Father Ascension, “this realm of California i...