Columbus Day

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10-5-18
  

  Columbus believed he would find ‘blemmyes’ and ‘sciapods’ – not people – in the New World

  by Peter C. Mancall

  Centuries of conventional wisdom had conditioned him to believe that bizarre beasts and 'monstrous men' would be awaiting him.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  10-5-18
  

  The Troubling History of the Fight to Honor Leif Erikson—Not Columbus—as the Man Who 'Discovered America'

  Leif Erikson Day is a celebration of the Viking explorer credited with reaching the continent around the year 1000, nearly 500 years before Columbus did.

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• 10/7/18
  

  Which Presidents – If Any – Did Right by Native Americans?

  by Walter G. Moss

  And the disheartening truth about the policies and attitudes of some of our greatest presidents.

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• 2/20/18
  

  Columbus Day

  HNN's full coverage of Columbus Day, Indigenous People's Day

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10-6-17
  

  How Columbus, of all people, became a national symbol

  by William Francis Keegan

  Columbus likely would have slipped back into obscurity if not for American hubris.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  10-9-17
  

  The Invention of Christopher Columbus, American Hero

  by Edward Burmila

  How the founding fathers turned Christopher Columbus, a mediocre Italian sailor and mass murderer, into a historical icon.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  10-8-17
  

  Trump Praises 'Arrival of Europeans' In Columbus Day Message, Doesn't Mention Native Americans Who Were Slaughtered

  In his final Columbus Day proclamation as president, Obama recognized the suffering endured by the Native American people.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  

  The History Behind the Movement to Replace Columbus Day With Indigenous Peoples' Day

  by Arica L. Coleman

  Though the first Indigenous Peoples’ Day was celebrated in the early 1990s, the idea took shape many years earlier.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  10-4-17
  

  As Confederate statues come down, what about Columbus?

  While historians caution against lumping in Columbus with Confederates who came three centuries later, they say Columbus’ holiday and monuments remain ripe for reassessment — whether they stay, change or vanish entirely.

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• SOURCE: KPCC
  8-30-17
  

  LA votes to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day

  Los Angeles joins San Francisco and several other cities nationwide in honoring native Americans in lieu of Columbus.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  10-10-16
  

  The war against Columbus Day

  A growing number of communities are now ditching the traditional Columbus Day holiday in favor of Indigenous People’s Day.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9-30-16
  

  Video of the Week: How the Legacy of Native Americans' Forced Assimilation Lingers Today

  by Nadine Ajaka

  The short documentary "Little Dream Catchers" takes us to White Earth Nation in Minnesota—the state’s largest tribe with over 20,000 members.

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• 10-6-16
  

  Perils of Indigenous People’s Day

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Students often think Native Americans are all dead.  Why? Teachers only teach what happened to them as victims from long ago.  

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• SOURCE: New Historian
  9-30-16
  

  Campaign To Tear Down Statue of Christopher Columbus

  For more than century a bronze statue of Christopher Columbus has adorned the Barcelona skyline, but now a group of anti-capitalist councilors are working to get the memorial torn down.

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• SOURCE: Press Release: The Zinn Education Project
  9-29-16
  

  Howard Zinn group backs move to "Abolish Columbus Day"

  The Zinn Education Project is launching a new website — zinnedproject.org/ABOLISH — to help schools and communities introduce legislation to rename Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  9-24-16
  

  Is Columbus Day Going Extinct?

  Colleges, cities, small towns, and even states are changing the name of the controversial holiday, and if the trend continues it may be gone completely.

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• 10-9-16
  

  It’s that Time of Year Again ... When We Recognize Indigenous People!

  by Dina Gilio-Whitaker

  The rest of the year the mainstream media and schools treat Native people as extinct. There are consequences to this neglect.

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• 10-4-16
  

  Why You Shouldn’t Believe US Presidents Were Benevolent or at Least Fair-Minded Toward Indians

  by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker

  An excerpt from a book about myths about Native Americans.

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• 2-3-16
  

  Brown University professors vote to recognize "Indigenous People's Day"

  It’s in reaction to protests against Columbus Day.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  10-10-14
  

  Discover this: Columbus Day isn't about Columbus

  by Sam Wineburg

  These days, a good word about Christopher Columbus is about as rare as an insult was 100 years ago.