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.
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]