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Related Off-site Links:
Columbus Day: Trump Accuses “Radical Activists” of Trying to Undermine Explorer’s Legacy in Holiday Proclamation – Courtney Subramanian (USA Today, October 12, 2020).
Trump's Praise of Columbus Omits Dark History – Holly Yan (CNN News, October 9, 2017).
The Real Christopher Columbus – Howard Zinn (Jacobin, October 12, 2015).
These States Are Ditching Columbus Day to Observe Indigenous Peoples' Day Instead – Scottie Andrew and AJ Willingham (CNN News, October 12, 2020).
Indigenous Peoples’ Day: The Latest U.S. Billboard Project to Send a Message – Nadja Sayej (The Guardian, October 12, 2020).
This Tribal Map of America Shows Whose Land You're Actually Living On – David Grossman (Popular Mechanics, October 12, 2020).
Indigenous Peoples’ Day: Two-Spirit Native Americans Bridge Genders – Kittredge Cherry (Q Spirit, October 12, 2020).

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Trump’s America: Normalized White Supremacy and a Rising Tide of Racist Violence
• Something to Think About – October 9, 2017
• Words of Wisdom on Indigenous Peoples’ Day
• Michael Greyeyes’ Latest Film Provides a “New Understanding of How History Repeats”
• Something to Think About – October 13, 2015
• Buffy Sainte-Marie: Quote of the Day – September 27, 2015
• Something Special for Indigenous Peoples’ Day
• Buffy Sainte-Marie: Singing It and Praying It; Living It and Saying It
• Buffy Sainte-Marie and That “Human-Being Magic”
• Buffy Sainte-Marie’s “America the Beautiful”
• Something to Think About – February 23, 2017
• “It Is All Connected”
• Standing in Prayer and Solidarity with the Water Protectors of Standing Rock
• Standing Together
• Visions of Crazy Horse
• Come, Spirit . . .
• North America: Perhaps Once the “Queerest Continent on the Planet”