To those who do not know any better, the day Columbus set foot on America was a great day. Columbus Day is a day of no work or school. It is a day of fun and parades in Columbus’s honor. However, the moment he set foot on America he damned the Native Americans from that time all the way to the present and for this reason the Native Americans refuse to join in the celebration. In fact, according to Churchill’s article, “Confronting Columbus Day”, a group of Native Americans tried to break up one of the parades (3).
Churchill makes some very powerful arguments in “Confronting Columbus Day” that can not be ignored. But of course that was his intention. Who would deny that we Americans walk, sleep, and eat on what use to be Native American territory until white settlers scammed the natives of their land. I think that the Native Americans were tired of watching people praise a dimwitted explorer who got lucky in finding a new land and brought a plague so devastating on the Native America that they have yet to recover fully.
Personally, as much as I agree with Ward Churchill about Columbus Day, it seems quite impossible to get rid of Columbus Day unless one finds a way to discredit Christopher Columbus.
