David Stannard’s American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World is a searing account of the Native American genocide perpetrated by Europeans in the Americas–Spain in South America and Anglo-Americans in the north. I felt so much grief and shame reading this book. The sheer destruction and rampant barbaric cruelty shown to the indigenous people of the Americas, and the staggering number of deaths is horrifying. Scholars generally agree that the indigenous population was somewhere between 75 to 100 million people, with 8 to 12 […]