What would General George Armstrong Custer have to say about the city of Los Angeles ruling that Columbus Day now be changed to Indigenous People Day? Would he still have gone into battle and lost his life?
Contrary to popular belief, the biggest mass murder in American history happened at Wounded Knee South Dakota. Hundreds of men women and children were brutally massacred.
Would the California Christian Missionaries still have beat and insisted that Indigenous children sit on school room floors while the white children sat on benches?
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Last and certainly not least, what if Christopher Columbus had realized in 1492 that had he acknowledged the natives he encountered with respect, they would have lived on to care for the earth?
We have an Indigenous People's Day now, we have a new beginning. We have the opportunity to learn and not repeat the ignorance and waste of our minds found in history.