Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples’ Day: What We Call It Depends on What We Want to Celebrate
by Christina Horner “Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shores, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles of racial …