Indian Students Take to the Streets of Lawrence, Kansas in Protest of Columbus Day

[The Sushi Bandit]

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20071009141326465

Keep the day. Dump the Columbus.

That’s long been the rallying cry at Haskell Indian Nations University each year as Columbus Day approaches.

This year Haskell students marched down Lawrence's (the city which is also the home of the University of Kansas) main street in protest of the holiday which is anything but for American Indians.

Haskell students also called upon the Lawrence city council to rename the holiday this year Indigenous Peoples Day. “It (the holiday) is in essence celebrating our genocide instead of celebrating our survival,” Willow Bonga told the Journal World. “It was a time when it decimated our populations and brought the natives to the ground. It only was by our pure strength that we were able to rise up and still be in existence today.”

[Mythsaje]

1. Unfortunately, Italian-Americans LIKE the holiday.

But, yeah, I think there SHOULD be a nationally-recognized Indigenous Peoples Day.

[The Sushi Bandit]

2. I think we should dump Columbus for Leif Erikson... but...

everyone on the mainland should take King Kamehameha Day off like we do here on Maui!

I mean... show some RESPECT!!!