COLUMBUS DAY[/b]

In fourteen hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue!

Later that October, Columbus sighted Cuba and believed it was mainland China; in December the expedition found Hispaniola, which he thought might be Japan. There, he established Spain’s first colony in the Americas with 39 of his men. In March 1493, Columbus returned to Spain, bearing gold and spices. It wasn’t until his third journey that Columbus finally realized he hadn’t reached Asia but instead had stumbled upon a continent previously unknown to Europeans!

Challenge: Create a HA or HAs fitting the time Columbus lived in! Be it the captain itself, a mate or a native, attendants, queen, king, princess, prince or knight, farmer or any other profession. You could even create a whole bunch of people living in that era, related or not.

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well I dont know if this works or is the right era but if not please ignore this :)

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Given that Columbus & the people sponsoring him were genocidal slavers, I really wanted to do something... not that, so I decided to do some research on the Bahamas before Columbus's arrival.

The first people he met upon arriving in the Bahamas were the Lukku-Cairi, latinised to Lucayan, the only people occupying the Bahamas at the time. The only surviving records of them are from Columbus's journals and archaeological digs, and there's not much by way of articles on them, either, so I mostly went off the wikipedia page.

This page states, "Women past puberty wore a small skirt of cotton, and the men might wear a loincloth made of plaited leaves or cotton. Some people wore head bands, waist bands, feathers, bones and ear and nose jewelry on occasion. They were often tattooed and usually applied paint to their bodies and/or faces. [...] "Their hair was black and straight, and they kept it cut short except for a few hairs in back which were never cut."

From later in the article, "The Lucayans made fish hooks from bone or shell and harpoon points from bone." In another article I found an excerpt from Columbus's journal, which states "I kept my eyes open and tried to find out if there was any gold, and I saw that some of them had a little piece hanging from a hole in their nose."

From these meager descriptions I did my best to recreate what a young Lukku-Cairi woman might look like.

Very shortly after Columbus's arrival the Spanish started taking the Lukku-Cairi as slaves, resulting in an extreme depopulation and by 1520 they were completely gone from the Bahamas.

I don't know how to deal with these horrors of history. I feel like the least I can do is try to represent it accurately and avoid perpetuating the lasting social effects of the horrorshow America is built on whenever I can: blatant racism, yes, but also the more subtle things: the stereotype of the "noble savage," ignorance of what happened and the fact that it still has consequences, the thought that it doesn't matter. It does matter, because its effects are so deeply rooted. The ground upon which we stand is soaked with blood. I don't know what to do about it. I really don't.

Sorry to get so real, but I feel like you have to with Columbus day. You have to know what that name means. It's like celebrating Hitler day. And it's our whole culture's fault that so many people just don't think about that. We've taught ourselves to ignore it.

So, here's a young woman on her way to go fishing. A few years later she was likely taken as a slave just because someone could.

Last day for entering this contest. During Morostide, there won´t be many contests because we´re all so preoccupied with ToTing and other contests in the Moro forum! ^-^

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Thank you so much for partizipating in the contest, my lovelies! I know Columbus actions are discussed controversional, that´s why I concededed that a great deal of colonisation wrongfulness were also done here. I pondered some hours if this date would be worth a contest, yet for history, he´ll be one of the greatest discoverers of his time and it was more the time the contest was referring to and not Columbus as a person himself alone.

Here are all your beautiful HAs together:

🎉 Congrats to

🏆 1st place goes to for a beautiful pair of native island dwellers! Congrats, my friend! Please choose a prize out of the gallery! <3

🏆 2cd place goes to for a noble maiden ready fend for herself, congrats, love! <3

🏆 3th place goes to who showed us the discoverer himself, very nice, sweetie, congrats! <3

Thankyou My choices would be

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Your turn to choose a prize out of the gallery, love! <3

Thank you! <3
May I please have the ?

Question: Are we allowed to change our entries as long as it is before the end of the contest?

Sending and yes, you are always allowed to change entries until deadline. ^-^

Your turn to choose a prize, love! ^-^

ohh cool! May I pick the Courageous Graduation Strands? ^^ ty!

Sending and locking this now, thank you so much!