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The Myth of Christopher Columbus: First Illegal Alien
Imagine a foreign-speaking stranger, by the name of Christopher Columbus, walked into your house one day, claimed it was now his and threw you out, or even enslaved or killed you and your family.
Would you celebrate him with a national holiday?
Neither would I.
Yet the United States and other countries in the West continue to celebrate Christopher Columbus as having discovered the “New World” even though there was a perfectly marvelous civilization already living here.
[Columbus Day in 2012 is Monday, October 8 – a Federal holiday.]
My Lakota dad Wallace Black Elk called Columbus “the first illegal alien.”