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Columbus Day : Thanks but No Thanks

8:20 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · history · 3 Comments

9 Oct 2006

christopher-columbus.jpgSome United States residents today have the day off from work and school in observance of Columbus Day. You all have heard the elementary school poem: In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue and…..well he actually didn’t discover a thing (lands inhabitated by indigenous peoples don’t need to be “discovered”) and he didn’t even actually set foot on North America proper. What he did set off was a cycle of violence that violated the land and human rights of Indigenous, Native and First Nation people across the Americas.

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