Minneapolis Renames Columbus Day As Indigenous People's Day(npr.org)
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Minneapolis Renames Columbus Day As Indigenous People's Day
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/04/27/307445328/minneapolis-renames-columbus-day-as-indigenous-peoples-day?sc=tw
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This a step in the right direction. I always thought it to be strange to celebrate this fraud every year. Yet somehow they always neglect to tell schoolkids small details like how he would test the sharpness of his sword on a random "Indian".
The reference to testing the sharpness of blades comes from an account by Bartolomé de las Casas, a 16th-century Spanish historian who saw it in person. [1] This particular atrocity isn't ascribed to Columbus himself.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolomé_de_las_Casas
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolomé_de_las_Casas