print email comment close Re: Indigenous People's Opposition to Celebration and Glorification of Colonial Pirate Christopher Columbus URL: http://www.aimovement.org/moipr/columbus-oct00.html Description: This site contains a 2000 press release from the American Indian Movement Grand Governing Council opposing the celebration of Columbus Day on the claimed basis that "Columbus was the beginning of the American holocaust, ethnic cleansing characterized by murder, torture, raping, pillaging, robbery, slavery, kidnapping, and forced removals of Indian people from their homelands." Publisher: American Indian Movement Library of Congress Subject Headings: America -- Colonization American Indian Movement Columbus Day Indians -- Civil rights Special days LII Database Information: Record 7646 created by Jennifer English on 09/16/2003 Last modification on 09/18/2003 Published: 09/16/2003   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/7646