Tiya A. Miles: Similar Struggles Should Unite Native and African Americans in Protesting Columbus Day

This story was filed on October 10, 2012

Columbus’ voyage to the Americas provided a direct route to the exploitation, dehumanization, and decimation of African and Indigenous peoples in the west. Whole populations of Native peoples died because of violent contact with Europeans; from the 17th and early…read more

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