Why put that shit in the title? Powhatan, whose proper name was Wahunsenacawh, is my 12th great grandfather - Pocahontas is my great aunt! I celebrate this day, as an understanding that this man Columbus:

“God inspired ‘a man among the Gentiles’ who, by the Spirit of God was led to rediscover the land of America and bring this rich new land to the attention of the people in Europe. Choice land among all others! That man, of course, was Christopher Columbus, who testified that he was inspired in what he did.

And while historians may debate Columbus’s motives, from his writing it seems that Columbus himself knew why he did what he did:

"With a hand that could be felt, the Lord opened my mind to the fact that it would be possible to sail, and he opened my will to desire to accomplish the project. . . . This was the fire that burned within me. . . . Who can doubt that this fire was not merely mine, but also of the Holy Spirit . . . urging me to press forward?