Columbia University Native American Council Objects to Columbus Day Views

ICTMN Staff
October 26, 2011
The Native American Council of Columbia University, in New York City, recently had an opinion piece by Julian NoiseCat published in the Columbia Daily Spectator to combat statement...

A Columbus Day Classic

Columbia Students Choose How to Spend Columbus Day

ICTMN Staff
October 11, 2011
Columbia University, in New York City, offered students options for how to spend Columbus Day...

#AbolishColumbusDay vs. #HappyColumbusDay: How the Twitterverse Saw It

ICTMN Staff
October 12, 2011
How, perhaps, many Americans see Columbus Day: Some Native reactions: Once again, with sarcasm: A family divided: A rallying image: Above tweet linked to: Quoting Howard Zinn: Spot...

An Open Letter to Urban Outfitters on Columbus Day

ICTMN Staff
October 10, 2011
Here's a submission we received from a concerned member of the Santee Sioux nation; it's a letter addressed to the CEO of Urban Outfitters that raises some compelling moral and, in...
Monique Vondall-Rieke

Revisiting Columbus Day: Wonderment Does Not Equal Truth

On the eve of what most Americans celebrate as “Columbus Day” I found myself turning to the History Channel to watch “Who Really Discovered America?” I was instantly upset by the summations of world experts on how other cultures, civilizations if you will, came to settle or exist in North Americ...

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October 10, 2011

Poems by Suzan Shown Harjo: jumping through the hoops of history and Macacalypto

Suzan Shown Harjo
October 09, 2011
I wrote this poem in 1990, as we were starting The 1992 Alliance, a national coalition that promoted Native Peoples and histories during the build-up to the Columbus Quincentenary...

Columbus Day Protest Widens

Carol Berry
October 10, 2011
Smoldering and flaming, copies of two documents that initiated the destruction of Native cultures went up in smoke to loud cheers October 8, as opponents of the Columbus Day Parade...

A Columbus Day Wanted Poster

ICTMN Staff
October 10, 2011
A great Columbus Day cartoon by Redworks Creations .

A Columbus Day Greeting Card

ICTMN Staff
October 10, 2011
And this is only the tip of the iceberg. Many more great—and spot-on—Columbus Day cards available here from Some E Cards.

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