Columbus Day

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• 11/1/2020
  

  Columbus Still Kills: Trump, Colonial Apologetics and Anti-Native Violence

  by Thomas Lecaque

  As a historian, I see recent attacks on indigenous Americans and intrusions on tribal lands as part of a lengthy tradition of violence. But this year has witnessed a surge in apologetics for colonial violence in history that give support to present-day harm. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/12/2020
  

  On Columbus Day in 1963, Trump Marched up Fifth Avenue in New York’s Parade

  Donald Trump's participation as a military school drill team member shows that his love of spectacle has remained unchanged even as the national dialogue on racism and history has been transformed. 

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• SOURCE: Whitehouse.gov
  10/9/2020
  

  White House Issues Proclamation on Columbus Day

  The White House used the occasion of Columbus Day to attack historical revisionism and the use of "racially divisive concepts" in workplace training. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  10/12/2020
  

  The Creation Of Holidays In America Has Always Been Political

  by Diana Muir Appelbaum

  All holidays are invented, none will last forever and the decision to add a holiday to the federal calendar is always political.

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• 10/22/19
  

  Citations Are a Metaphor for Erasure in American History

  by Anne C. Bailey

  Last week, the Washington Post failed to cite my book in an article about "The Weeping Time." Here's why such oversights matter. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/14/19
  

  Here are the indigenous people Christopher Columbus and his men could not annihilate

  This year the District of Columbia joins at least five states and dozens of cities and counties in replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day. It’s part of a decades-long reckoning with the sanitized version of the European colonization of the Americas.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10/10/10
  

  Why more places are abandoning Columbus Day in favor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day

  by Malinda Maynor Lowery

  The growing recognition and celebration of Indigenous Peoples’ Day actually represents the fruits of a concerted, decadeslong effort to recognize the role of indigenous people in the nation’s history.

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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.