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I'm very confused about the details of Columbus's first landfall in the Americas.
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Was Ingólfr Arnarson the first European to settle the American continent ? Arnarson and his wife, Hallveig Fróðadóttir, settled in Iceland, divided by a rift, mid-Atlantic Ridge, that splits Iceland into Europe Eastside and America Westside. Arnarson and his wife founded Reykjavík Geography of Iceland in 874, apparently the westside of Iceland, the American Continent. So Reykjavík would be the first American colony by a European. I am not sure there are sources on this, but 874 could mark the beginning of European colonization. Of course, I am not suggesting anything be put in the article, unless there are sources. Are there any sources that suggest such a thing? Cmguy777 ( talk) 05:50, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
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Shouldn't the American frontier and the Far West be part of this article? 5.171.88.101 ( talk) 19:40, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
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This page seems to treat European colonization as an exclusively historical phenomenon (as tellingly exemplified by the use of the past tense in the concluding sentence of the lead, "European contact and colonization had disastrous effects on the indigenous peoples of the Americas and their societies"). I would question that approach, which implicitly seems to categorize colonization by people of European origins as a thing of the past.
Within the current editorial framework, I would struggle to know how to provide pertinent information to the page about highly relevant current effects of ongoing colonization ( example) by people of European origins (in an appropriately weighted way). For this reason, I added [1] an entry linking to Mennonites to ==See also==. Not ideal, I know... and the edit was reverted by Masterhatch with the edit summary "already mentioned in the body". While that's true, the 'mention' is merely as a name on a list of religious groups (under ==Religion and migration==).
Given this situation, for the time being, I think it may be reaonable to insert under ==See also== * Mennonites#Environmental damage. (More generally, I think it would be good for the page to be less restricted to historical narrative.) 86.140.161.217 ( talk) 16:40, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
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I'm very confused about the details of Columbus's first landfall in the Americas.
In this article we say:
But Cat Island says :
And Guanahani says:
and
So the following questions arise:
Over. -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 01:25, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
Was Ingólfr Arnarson the first European to settle the American continent ? Arnarson and his wife, Hallveig Fróðadóttir, settled in Iceland, divided by a rift, mid-Atlantic Ridge, that splits Iceland into Europe Eastside and America Westside. Arnarson and his wife founded Reykjavík Geography of Iceland in 874, apparently the westside of Iceland, the American Continent. So Reykjavík would be the first American colony by a European. I am not sure there are sources on this, but 874 could mark the beginning of European colonization. Of course, I am not suggesting anything be put in the article, unless there are sources. Are there any sources that suggest such a thing? Cmguy777 ( talk) 05:50, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 24 August 2020 and 11 December 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Don'tTakeYourselfTooSeriously.
Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT ( talk) 20:58, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
Shouldn't the American frontier and the Far West be part of this article? 5.171.88.101 ( talk) 19:40, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 4 January 2023 and 15 March 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Pittarchy ( article contribs).
— Assignment last updated by Suspicious Turtle ( talk) 17:13, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
This page seems to treat European colonization as an exclusively historical phenomenon (as tellingly exemplified by the use of the past tense in the concluding sentence of the lead, "European contact and colonization had disastrous effects on the indigenous peoples of the Americas and their societies"). I would question that approach, which implicitly seems to categorize colonization by people of European origins as a thing of the past.
Within the current editorial framework, I would struggle to know how to provide pertinent information to the page about highly relevant current effects of ongoing colonization ( example) by people of European origins (in an appropriately weighted way). For this reason, I added [1] an entry linking to Mennonites to ==See also==. Not ideal, I know... and the edit was reverted by Masterhatch with the edit summary "already mentioned in the body". While that's true, the 'mention' is merely as a name on a list of religious groups (under ==Religion and migration==).
Given this situation, for the time being, I think it may be reaonable to insert under ==See also== * Mennonites#Environmental damage. (More generally, I think it would be good for the page to be less restricted to historical narrative.) 86.140.161.217 ( talk) 16:40, 19 December 2023 (UTC)