Celebration of the Day of Indigenous Resistance

From the word indigenous, a word used by the invaders of the Spanish empire to call the Native Americans, because they thought they had arrived in India, according to Christopher Columbus' calculations, to the way in which the natives were treated like beasts, according to the Catholic Church those natives had no soul, the way they were decimated with the brutal genocide, figures date back to about 90 million natives who in just 200 years became 3 million. Even the 150 tons of gold that were stolen.

While in Europe gold had a use value related to the exchange of goods, in America gold was the object of worship through the making of excellent metallurgists who achieved pieces such as the Tumi. Ceremonial knife, gold inlaid with precious stones such as lapis lazuli and emeralds.

even today in spain is officially celebrated the day of the discovery of america. i would like to know that they discovered if when they arrived there was a civilization with many technological advances that europe did not even think to have.

Digital Illustration - Tumi ceremonial knife, made in Ilustrator Cs5 adobe painted with mouse