Indigenous People's Day

Celebrate Indigenous People’s Day Many centuries ago, there was a man named Christopher Columbus whose mission was to find an ocean route to Asia, instead he discovered various Caribbean islands, the Gulf of Mexico, and the South and Central American mainland, but he never accomplished his original goal. He did however do other things that have impacted the world in the past in good and bad ways; these impacts are what he is known for and people decide what way they want to celebrate the federal holiday that was made in the honor of Columbus. For many years now there has been a great deal of controversy between which holiday would suit best for his actions that he made. I believe that celebrating Indigenous people’s day is better than Columbus

Columbus killed and enslaved many native americans. What he did was evil and selfish, and the native americans did not do anything wrong to have deserved those harmful things."By celebrating it, we're silently saying that this is ok and it's not. This is not someone that we should be looking up to, that we should be teaching our children he's a hero" (Franklin). Christopher Columbus shouldn’t be someone people can look up too. He isn’t worthy of being honored, even all the good that he did will never make up for the injustices that he created. Our school’s shouldn’t be teaching children that he was a “hero”, instead we should talk about other people who have impacted the world in a good way. “To me, the bottom line is this is public education. And if people find it offensive — even if the people who use it don’t think it is or don’t mean it to be — the public is paying for public education, and no one should be put in an uncomfortable position. My kids were uncomfortable”(Franklin). Nobody deserves to feel uncomfortable by a subject like this, which is why I find that Columbus shouldn’t be talked about, or at least teach people what he really did. We have the opportunity to reveal historical truths about the genocide and oppression of Indigenous peoples in the americas, and make society a bit

Instead, every american should honor indigenous people because of what they had to go through when Columbus was around. “Upon arriving in the Bahamas, the explorer and his men forced the native peoples they found there into slavery; later, while serving as the governor of Hispaniola, he allegedly imposed barbaric forms of punishment, including torture”(History). Columbus was evil and careless about indigenous peoples lives. Columbus shouldn’t have barged into their home land and just take control over everything without any permission. “We are no longer going to celebrate a time of genocide, but instead we will honor the land we live on and the people who have been here since the beginning” (Franklin). Rather than having a celebration on a person who caused pain, we should honor the land that we live in and the people who were here thousands of years before Columbus or any other explorer that came to the Americas. Honoring Indigenous people will show that we have great respect towards them and it will make them them feel more welcomed to the society they live