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    On Columbus Day, Indigenous Urge Celebration of Native Culture & Teaching of the Americas' Genocide

    As the nation commemorates the arrival of Christopher Columbus to the so-called "New World" in 1492, indigenous activists at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, are pushing for schools to teach the "real history of the Americas" and to celebrate indigenous culture. "Columbus Day" has long evoked sadness and anger amongst people of color, especially Native Americans, who object to honoring a man who opened the...
    Oct 08, 2012 | Story
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    Native American Leader Dennis Banks on the Overlooked Tragedy of Nation's Indian Boarding Schools

    On "Columbus Day" — known to many as Indigenous Peoples Day — we’re joined by Dennis Banks, a legendary Native American activist from the Ojibwe Tribe. In 1968, he co-founded the American Indian Movement. A year later, he took part in the occupation of Alcatraz Island in California. In 1972, he assisted in AIM’s "Trail of Broken Treaties," a caravan of numerous activist groups across the United States...
    Oct 08, 2012 | Story