Tag Archives: interest-colonialism

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   “Columbus Day” vs. “Indigenous Peoples’ Day”: What Should This Holiday Be Called?

   The death of George Floyd in May 2020 has sparked a cultural reckoning with systemic racism and violence in the US against Black, Brown, and Indigenous people, present and past—including the very story many of us are taught about the “discovery” of America. Statues of Christopher Columbus, whose landing in America is commemorated on October 12 each year, have been in some instances officially taken …