Ranger Times

 RANGER-  Jessie Laverne Ainsworth Greene of Ranger, passed away peacefully in her sleep on Wednesday, October 27, 2021 at the Ranger Care Center.    

“The Indians Discovered Columbus” was title to a paper I gave at a conference at the University of Texas in 1992. Indians say they discovered Columbus; he was lost not them. I thumbed through 100 books about Columbus and the literature was divided into two major categories—many said Columbus brought Christianity to the New World, but also prevalent were many books that said he brought genocide; he wiped out the Caribs and Arawak. What you and I believe about Columbus and pass on to our children and grandchildren is what we have read in books. We do not have the knowledge or ability to do original research in the Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese archives. Naturally, the book ADMIRAL OF THE OCEAN SEA by Samuel Eliot Morison, the professor at Harvard, who was a great authority on Columbus was reprinted in 1992. Noticeably, another book he wrote and which was printed by Harvard press in 1940 was not reprinted; its title was PORTUGUESE DISCOVERIES OF THE NEW WORLD, which reported that Jacques Court-Real, Portuguese explorer, discovered America in 1479. This 1479 discovery is on a tile in streets of Lisbon, Portugal, as a historical marker. All the leading universities in Portugal teach this, as well as all the universities in Brazil, a Portuguese colony at one time.

The Ranger Veterans Support Group will be going to other places on Veterans Day Nov. 11th that we are invited to.