Racists such as Columbus and his crew knew only what they wanted to take. They came to exploit the land and the people and kill anything and everyone that did not comply with the capitalist plan. The plan has never changed in the history of America. So now, bitter irony wreeks from the celebration of the invasion of this land. Even the person who does not revere Columbus can emulate the same greed and exploitation as the first white invaders.
Whites expect to learn the stories that bring wisdom to the Native American people.
The want to make the herbal remedies, and recover a lost sense of belonging. This is another angle to the new face of Columbus. Every week I hear him say that he's going into homeopathic medicine or wants to, that he's doing rituals that are making him a real spiritwalker. He is learning from the last of the tribes that this culture silenced just centuries age as threats to Christian teachings. Detainment camps for Native Americans are a contemporary extension of his oppression.