Many countries in the New World and elsewhere celebrate the anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas, which occurred on October 12, 1492, as an official holiday. The event is celebrated as Columbus Day in the United States.

What is historical truth? Does the story of Indian-white relations taught in our history books accurately reflect
American Indian experience?  Or is the history of the Americaa actually "his-story" - i.e, white, male and Eurocentric?
These questions came to a head in 1992 in the controversy surrounding the Columbian Quincentennial, the 500-year anniversary
of the voyage of the Christopher Columbus across the Atlantic Ocean and the "discovery" and conquest of the Americas. How
to "celebrate" or observe the quincentennial became a profound question for many Native Americanss.


Reasons on why not to celebrate Columbus Day!

Was He a Fool? - from Without Reservation(WOR)
[About Christopher Columbus]

Was he a fool or was he a hero?
The motherf___er was lost, that makes him a zero in
my book! cuz of the lives he took, cuz of the land he
stole, all in the hopes of gold!
trick him, put him down in American mythology as a
hero that never really could be.
You see, his claim to fame was discovering a land
already claimed by 10 million redmen!

he comes to MY land thinking it's India?
I got news for you, you don't have a clue
of where you are, but they still gave you a holiday! the
lie is up, now it's time to pay!
in 1999, whatcha gonna do? people pushed up
so consider yourself through: your name, your fame,
your game, consider it over! when i'm done with you,
you'll be rolling over in your grace, yeah it's just like
that! cuz  if you were alive, I'd have to get the gat and
blast your ass outta this atmosphere
a hero to me? You could never be!

I'm not from India, don't call me an Indian!
I'm not American, cuz we got our own land,
or what's left of it,
they took it, stole it, raped it,
and now they're destroying it!
They left my people in poverty, they starve me!
a genocidal catastrophe, how can it be? they say they
got a plan, but they don't understand, they're the damn
reason we're sinking in quicksand!

But those days of sinking are over!
and we know you ain't nothing but a rover.
We had enough of this. We're coming back with fist!
Telling truths about things that are ludicrous.
They take a man like Christopher Columbus, they mold
him, shape him and make him their gero. but the bottom
line is The Facts are simple. you might as well be
honoring a pimple.

"What!?!" A pimple's a thing, disgusting white and
dirty. It's okay to say you heard it from me!
(the comparison) Oh, how embrassing! To honor a
man who was just on a scam plan!
How the hell did he think this was his land?
"but, that's what they teach us in school?"
it's their plan to fill a land full of fools that think
only whatcha tell'em.
but not me, I won't stop yelling about the truth.
just leave the simple facts to me.
Listen! Open your eyes so you can see
about Columbus and what he did to us
and then you'll see why
we're raising such damn fuss.

Columbus, The Modern-Day scenario: unbearable,
incomparable! Suppose some punk
walked straight up in your house, and
yelled out, "Get the Hell Out!"
raped your wife and beat your kids
(that's what he did, God forbid!)
Then to make matters worse, they throw him a party!
a celebration? what a nation, to honor the man who
led to the onslaught! They forget? I won't let'em.