Yeah, I'm a bit tardy on this one.
I found The Columbus Page and there's some good stuff to be had there regardless of whether you consider Chris to have been a brave white man or an imperialist exploiter and murderer. For instance, you can read "Early Peruvian recorded daily life under the rule of Spanish conquistadors" which is an account of the Nueva Cronica of Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala published in 1615. Howard Zinn is wonderful, but you can get some first-hand accounts here of CC and what he wrought.
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