'For those groups, who were once viewed as 'others', Columbus was an avenue to acceptance, a path to whiteness.'
For decades, Native Americans and their allies have demanded the end of celebrating Columbus, rightly characterizing him as a mercenary of the Spanish monarchy, an actor in and symbol of the onset of European genocidal colonization of the Indigenous Peoples of the Western Hemisphere. Today,, instead celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day, sometimes called Native American Day. States have the option to opt out of any federal holiday or to change the name of the holiday.
This was the beginning of the international Indigenous movement within the United Nations system that culminated in the. However, it is a long struggle still unfinished to abolish the celebration of Columbus. It will require an act of Congress to rename the federal Columbus Day holiday Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Strong opposition from the Catholic Church and Italian communities would surely make that difficult.
Three years after the Chicago fair, a group of Italians in New York formed the Sons of Columbus Legion to celebrate future Columbus anniversaries, mingling with the Irish and the Knights of Columbus who had succeeded in getting the seventy-six-foot Columbus Monument installed in the center of Columbus Circle in New York in 1892. By then the Irish had spread throughout the country, as Trouillot notes, “with the full benefits of white status . . . Columbus himself . . .
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