Even the Ohio city named after Christopher Columbus has adopted Indigenous Peoples' Day in place of the holiday honoring the brutal colonizer, writes columnist Nancy Kelsey. It's time for Cleveland and other Northeast Ohio cities to do the same.
Dozens gathered at Riverfront Park in Salem, Oreg. to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day in 2021. In Ohio, even the capital city named after Christopher Columbus has adopted Indigenous Peoples' Day in place of the holiday honoring the brutal colonizer, writes columnist Nancy Kelsey. It's time for Cleveland and other Northeast Ohio cities to do the same.
So many in Northeast Ohio are hypocrites in their views. They vehemently argue that Chief Wahoo and other supposedly Native-inspired mascots are intended to honor Native people. Meanwhile, they dishonor us by failing to support the recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Anyone truly interested in honoring Indigenous peoples should be quick to embrace the change, especially because it has the blessing of so many Indigenous peoples, who view it as progress.
One of my favorite books, Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, recounts this of Columbus’s landing on what is now known as Hispaniola, as written by Spanish priest Bartolome de Las Casas: Las Casas’ words echo in my mind, because they so clearly hold true today -- “Who in future generations will believe this?”
I wonder if they would say the same about the evils of other genocidal figures in history, like Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin or Pol Pot? Not likely, because of the ire they would likely draw from the public.
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