Winona LaDuke is president of the Indigenous Women's Network and a member of the Anishinabe Nation. Christopher Columbus' reputation has not survived the scrutiny of history, and today we know that he was no more the discoverer of America than Pocahontas was the discoverer of Great Britain. First six pages of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States.
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The year 1492 marks the beginnings of European colonialism in the Americas and 500 years of persecution and slaughter of the indigenous peoples here.