The Europeans thought of themselves better because of their embrace of the terrible fraternal twins: Christianity and gun powder. It was the beginning of the Amerindian genocide. Can we learn from yesteryear, grow better from that knowledge, or are we doomed to repeat the worst of our past? It became imperialism by another name — cloaked in self-serving phrases like “manifest destiny.” The appalling result meant slow death for the Amerindian population, and for those remaining alive, degradation, hopelessness, and despair. If there is a lesson to be learned here, could it be that we might come to recognize ourselves in the reflection of the Amerindian genocide?