Why Celebrate Columbus Day?

[Bobbieo]

Columbus Never Stepped Foot On Turtle Island, So
Why Celebrate Columbus Day?
Opinion
Submitted by Mark Reed

This column is a rewrite, first published in Native Unity on October 14th, 2005 and still is the most popular/controversial article on the Native Unity Blog.

Columbus Day will be celebrated on October 11th, 2010.

1. Columbus sailed into the Caribbean and never even set foot in what is now known as the United States. So, why do we, in the United States, give him one of our 8 Federal holidays?

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[Ken Burch]

1. Personally, I don't

From what I can tell, nobody actually does celebrate it anymore, other than a few Italian-American communities in various parts of the country.

[Bobbieo]

3. the state of South Dakota has changed it to Native American Day!

[Orrex]

2. I spend the day thinking very solemnly about Ohio

[Bobbieo]

4. And I am going to spend the day seriously thinking about Arizona - someone needs to..

[Hardrada]

5. In this neck of the woods we never have.

It has always seemed an alien interposition. (As indeed was C.C. himself)

[RZM]

6. If I'm given the day off, I'll take it

Otherwise, I usually don't even know when it's happening.

[Bobbieo]

7. Perhaps it should be removed from the list of Federal Holidays if most Americans don't care any more

Make it Native American Day.

[stray cat]

8. We should all work on Columbus day - oh wait most of us are

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