Oct 13 2015
Why Portland Now Celebrates Indigenous People’s Day on Columbus Day
GUEST: Reyn Leno, Tribal Council Chairman for the Confederate Tribes of Grand Ronde in Portland, Oregon.
While most of the US yesterday marked Columbus Day to perpetrate the myth that Christopher Columbus “discovered” America, a growing number of cities and states also decided to celebrate it as “Indigenous People’s Day.” The city of Portland, Oregon was the latest to join in the trend.
Jeremy FiveCrows of the Nez Perce Tribe in Portland told Associated Press, “The European arrival in the Americas certainly was pivotal in history, however it was far from its beginning. For far too long, thousands of years of indigenous culture, history, learning and wisdom has been dismissed or ignored as prehistory that has nothing to do with today.”
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