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There are three main sources of controversy involving his interactions with the Indigenous people he labeled “Indians”: the use of violence and slavery, the forced conversion of native peoples to...
Controversy over Columbus Day dates back to the 19th century, when anti-immigrant groups in the United States rejected the holiday because of its association with Catholicism.
There is some hope this year for a recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ Day to replace Columbus Day, primarily because there has been this huge reckoning with race propelled by the Black Lives Matter movement. A lot of changes that are happening now we owe to Black Lives Matter protesters.
Engage students in a structured academic controversy, in which they look at multiple viewpoints around the question “Should we celebrate Columbus Day?” The goal isn’t to win a debate, but to articulate both sides of the question and form a conclusion based on the critical analysis of evidence.
Opposition to Columbus Day (observed on the second Monday of October) has intensified in recent decades. The Italian explorer’s arrival in the New World ushered in genocide against Indigenous people as well as the transatlantic trade of enslaved people.
But as modern historians began to spotlight the brutal side of the explorer’s legacy—especially relative to native communities—calls to abolish Columbus Day, or replace it with Indigenous ...
One of the largest lynchings in U.S. history, it occurred during a time of widespread anti-immigrant and anti-Italian sentiment in the country and one year after the murder of New Orleans’ police chief, which was blamed on the city’s Italian population.
“This historically problematic holiday — Columbus never actually set foot on the continental U.S. — has made an increasing number of people wince, given the enslavement and genocide of Native...
Although Columbus remarked in his writings that the Native people he encountered were gentle and hospitable, his treatment of them was generally brutal; Columbus’s men pillaged villages to support themselves and enslaved large numbers of indigenous people for labor, sex, and sale in Europe.
It commemorates Christopher Columbus's landing in the New World on October 12, 1492. The holiday was originally a time for parades and celebrations, especially among Italian Americans. But by the 1990s it had become a day to discuss the harsh reality of European violence against Native Americans.