Columbus Day Is A Monument To White Supremacy

I come from Laguna Pueblo and the Yuma Nation, and even in my small reservation border city ― the place many people youngsters had been Pueblo, Apache, Ute and Navajo ― Columbus Day was taken critically by my elementary faculty academics. We honored the Italian explorer, coloring photos of the ships Columbus captained to “uncover” our homeland. We took pink crayons to the crusader flag, by no means realizing then that it was the identical shade because the blood our ancestors shed throughout colonization on the…