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• Society: Ethnicity: The Americas: Indigenous: Native Americans: Issues and Activism  (87)
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Abolish Columbus Day Online petition requesting that Congressional Representatives rename "Columbus Day" to "First Americans Day." http://www.petitiononline.com/fadoct/petition.html

Columbus Meets the Native Americans Contends that the so-called discovery of the New World was nothing more than a takeover and that Columbus should not be honored. http://violettespage.com/2006/10/christopher-columbus.shtml

A Faithful Response A formal response issued by the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA to the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus. http://www.indians.org/welker/faithful.htm

Goodbye Columbus! Editorial against a "racist Columbus legacy." http://www.indians.org/welker/byecolum.htm

Indigenous People's Opposition to Celebration and Glorification of Colonial Pirate Christopher Columbus Press release in opposition to Columbus Day, by the American Indian Movement. http://www.aimovement.org/moipr/columbus-oct00.html