To prove the point that North America didn’t need to be discovered by Columbus because people already lived here, a Native American man named Adam Fortunate Eagle flew to an international event taking place in Italy. In preparation for his trip, he began to research the “discovery” of Italy, much like American students learn of Columbus’s “discovery” of the Americas. But he found there was no such myth, no tale of a heroic aha moment on the part of an explorer.
