Should Columbus Day be Indigenous Peoples Day?

Glenn T. Morris is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado at Denver and is Shawnee, the 4th World Law and Political Research Center Director. He is also a member of the Colorado American Indian Movement Leaders' Congress that protests every year at the Denver Columbus Day Parade.

Morris supported the abolition of Columbus Day but stated that the People's Day did not help alleviate the problem of indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere such as self-determination rights, religious freedom, socioeconomic and health conditions of poverty.

The next Monday is Columbus Day, but in recent years a campaign to abolish Columbus Day was held. The Columbus Day occasionally occupies a suspicious position in our country's calendar in commemoration of "discovery" by Christopher Columbus in America and its subsequent enslavement of the indigenous peoples. Today I am very pleased to share this guest article with educator and author Tami Charles and reconsider how I recognize Columbus day.

For decades, the activists have fought for the people's day, and they are the local slaves and mass slaughter where the statues of Columbus Day and Columbus and other memorial events represented his real legacy I believe I washed the savage history. On 11th October 1492 Columbus today called the first encounters with indigenous peoples of Haiti about them as "servants" and wrote in his own diary. "They saw what they said they would soon tell them, so they should be good and intelligent servants," he wrote. "And I believe they are easy to become a Christian, because in my opinion they have no faith." He continues to write down the six local residents he will become slaves to. It was.

People 's Day (also called Native American Day) is a festival celebrated all over the United States as an anti - celebration event for Columbus Day. The aim of the day is to promote the culture of Native American and commemorate the history of Native American. Celebration began in 1992 in Berkeley, California as a substitute for Columbus Day. Indigenous days are usually held on the second Monday of October consistent with the Commemorative Day of Columbus Day.