Just to lighten up the discussion a little, here's a song that I learned some years ago...

The day I well remember when Columbus landed here.
Me and forty Redmen were right there at the pier.
He asked me why my Indians wore feathers in their hair
Why that's to keep their trousers up and this I do declare.

Chorus...
I'm the man who built the Rockies up and placed them where they are
sold whisky to the Indians, from behind my little bar
'twas I who built Niagara Falls and first discovered beer
and that was many years before, Columbus landed here.

He asked me where he had to go to catch that China train.
It was clear the poor old coot had china on the brain.
I said 'no train I know of, leaves from here today,
but you'll find my Chinese laundry men not half a block away.

Chorus.

He noticed among my Indians, some had skins quite fair,
and asked if any white man, had been before somewhere.
I told him 'You must realise, I've been here quite some time,
and since they cannot be yours, they no doubt are mine'

Chorus.