In 1504, Christopher Columbus, on his fourth trans-Atlantic voyage, was stranded on the shores of Jamaica, with his ships crawling with marine worms and his crew hungry. The Indigenous Arawak people, ...

Christopher Columbus was a 15th and 16th century explorer ... the colonization of the New World led to the exploitation of its indigenous peoples, often violently and eventually with disastrous ...

Christopher Columbus, a dead white male of the worst ... the shores of the “New World” and laid waste the ancient indigenous peoples there. Columbus deserves little credit (Leif Erikson ...

Indigenous Peoples' Day has been federally recognized ... The grade school lesson about the explorer Christopher Columbus ...

A number of cities across America have already swapped it for Indigenous Peoples' Day. Detractors argue Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus brought along slavery, disease, and death when he ...

In recent years, Indigenous peoples and other activists have ... "Today, we celebrate Christopher Columbus arriving in the Americas and the dawn of Western Civilization in the New World.

Advocates have long pushed to replace Columbus Day across the country with Indigenous Peoples Day to denounce Christopher Columbus’ treatment of Native Americans, who for millennia lived in the ...

On this Indigenous Peoples' Day, we're taking a closer ... yet to efforts to refocus the federal holiday celebrating Christopher Columbus toward an appreciation of Native peoples.

Though many still celebrate Columbus Day — a holiday to remember the month in 1492 when Italian explorer Christopher ... of people have abandoned the tradition in favor of recognizing Indigenous ...

Tucson’s Christopher Columbus Park has been renamed Danny Lopez Park in commemoration of the Indigenous leader who ... of who the Tohono O’odham people are.” Lopez was remembered as a ...

Christopher Columbus, on his fourth trans-Atlantic voyage, was stranded on the shores of Jamaica, with his ships crawling with marine worms and his crew hungry. The Indigenous Arawak people ...

Columbus is famous for reaching the Americas and opening a new world to European pioneers ...