"A Coyote Columbus Story" shows the native perspective on the beginning of colonialism. When introducing Christopher Columbus into the story, Coyote says "[t]hat is he who found the Indians" (King "Coyote" 123). In many of his stories, King writes the narrative without quotation marks, but this particular story does not contain a single quote. The style in which it is written is not similar to many other postcolonial texts. Rather than describing historical facts directly and accurately, this story portrays real people, like Columbus and the Indians, but doing strange things, like playing ball. Although the events did not happen the way King claims, he is looking for a deeper meaning of how colonization affected the Natives, from the Natives' perspective. The symbolization and mockery within this narrative represent resentment at the arrival of colonization. On page 126, Christopher Columbus and his men look for things to sell, symbolizing the greed of the colonizers. Then, on page 127, Christopher Columbus gets the idea to sell the Indians instead, which represents slavery during the colonial period. The idea of ​​kidnapping the Indians and selling them into slavery arose after his men collected a monkey, a parrot, a fish and a coconut. Columbus tells them that "[t]he hat stuff ain't worth the poop" (King "Coyote" 126). Columbus was part of a slave-driven society, which included the slave trade, worked as a sugar buyer, and visited the colonies where slaves were traded for years. Here, King highlights what really motivated Columbus: finding things to sell to make money. He is depicted not as the familiar hero of the story, or a great explorer, but as confusing the New World with China, and… center of paper… Alternatives 28.3 (2009): 8-14 . Premier of academic research. Network. March 17, 2014. Gibert, Teresa. "Narrative Strategies in Thomas King's Short Stories." Telling Stories: Postcolonial Short Fiction in English. Ed. Jacqueline Bardolfo. Atlanta: Edizioni Rodopi BV, 1994. 67-70. Print.King, Thomas. "A Story of Coyote Columbus." A beautiful story, that. Toronto: Harper Perennial Canada, 1999. Print.---. "Godzilla against the postcolonial". Journal of Postcolonial Writing 30.2 (1990): 10-16. Print.Turcotte, Gerry. “Remarking History, or Playing Basketball with Godzilla: Thomas King's Monstrous Post-Colonial Gesture.” University of Wollongong Online Research (2003): 1-20. Network. March 10, 2014. Winks, David. “Forging postcolonial identities through acts of translation?” Journal of African Cultural Studies 21.1 (2009): 65-74. Premier of academic research. Network. March 9. 2014.