Trump and the White House don’t acknowledge Native Americans in push not to ‘erase’ Columbus’s legacy

The following article by Eugene Scott was posted on the Washington Post website October 9, 2017:

A member of the Dakota Nation (Sioux) tribe arrives at the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples outside the United Nations in Manhattan in 2013. (Adrees Latifs/Reuters)

A growing number of Americans are rethinking how they should talk about Italian explorer Christopher Columbus on the October day designated to honor his voyage. But the Trump campaign is not joining them.

Instead, the campaign is doubling down on honoring the colonizer who is increasingly being scrutinized for his mistreatment of Native Americans and African slaves.

The president’s reelection campaign is having a Columbus Day sale to allow customers supportive of the navigator’s voyage (which did not make it to what is now the United States of America) to purchase the “Make America Great Again” merchandise of their choice for a discounted price. Continue reading “Trump and the White House don’t acknowledge Native Americans in push not to ‘erase’ Columbus’s legacy”