Columbus Day has been a holiday since the 1930s, but many states and cities are no longer celebrating Columbus Day. Columbus Day is a holiday that honors Christopher Columbus, the explorer who journeyed to the Americas. Christopher Columbus and his crew killed and enslaved many Native Americans. Columbus never even reached what is now known as the United States. The United States should celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day instead of Columbus Day. Some people think that Columbus Day should stay. The United States shouldn’t celebrate Columbus Day because Columbus’s exploration led to a lot of suffering, Columbus did not discover the United States, and Indigenous Peoples Day should be celebrated instead of Columbus Day. Columbus’s exploration led to a lot of suffering. Christopher Columbus was a European explorer who killed and enslaved many Native Americans. In the article Goodbye, Columbus Day it says, “Columbus’s crew enslaved or killed many of the native people they encountered.” Columbus and his crew were wrongfully harming the indigenous people who did nothing wrong. They took away the way of life for many tribes. They took everything from many, many Native Americans and gave nothing in return other than mistreatment. Columbus’s exploration led to a lot of pain and suffering for the Native Americans. …show more content…
When Christopher Columbus came to the Americas, millions of indigenous people already lived there. The article The Columbus Day Debate says, “Columbus is often said to have “discovered” America, millions of indigenous, or native, people already lived there.” The United States shouldn’t celebrate someone who didn’t even discover the United States. Many indigenous people lived there long before Columbus arrived. Columbus didn’t even have the intention to come to the United States, he thought he was going to Asia. The Native Americans discovered the United States, not
Some Americans argue that Columbus days honors Christopher Columbus, a 14th century Italian sailor and explorer, who sailed under the Spanish Crown who landed on the island of Hispaniola. Others argue that Columbus day does not honor the sailor, rather it recognizes the first contact between Europeans and Natives. While some Americans wish the holiday to be abolished altogether due to Columbus’s controversial actions in Hispaniola. Columbus Day should be renamed to acknowledge what followed Columbus’s
For the past eighty years, Columbus Day has been a federal holiday celebrated on the second Monday of October. On that day, we celebrate the great and noble explorer, Christopher Columbus, and all of his epic voyages and groundbreaking discoveries. That's the narrative we mostly hear about. But is that really the truth? It appears as though the actual story of Christopher Columbus is far worse than the romanticized versions we often hear. The morality of Columbus' values, actions, and character are
America should not celebrate Columbus Day. With Christopher Columbus's interruption he came with hostility, false narrative and wrong celebration. When Christopher Columbus sailed and took over he used hostility against the Indians in the caribbean by cutting their hands off, silenced them with wooden slats put over their tongues and killing indians in the caribbean within two generations. He did not contribute to any positive or important knowledge by doing so, none the less the results led up