David E. Stannard is professor of American studies at the University of Hawaii. His books include Death in America, Shrinking History, The Puritan Way of Death, and Before the Horror.
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For four hundred years-from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s-the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending... SEE MORE