Reframing Columbus Day

Posted on 2015 October 12 by anewc2

In cross-cultural moments like these, de Vaca and las Casas show us an American perspective and identity far more inspiring than that of Columbus. Such alternative figures and voices could bring together cultures in much the same way a reframed Columbus Day might, commemorating both the indigenous peoples so central to our histories and those Europeans who even in our earliest post-contact moments recognized and responded to that centrality.

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