Colombus was just an explorer and a good one. The real colonialists and imperialists was the Spanish aristocrats...

What happened to the Native Americans should be told accurately and not brushed under the carpet. A genocide was unleashed on them; of that there is no doubt, and everyone needs to accept this fact. It is the history of north America, they were treated in an absolutely barbaric fashion, sometimes cut up to feed to dogs, sometimes with disease deliberitley manifested on them. The horrors go on and on. America today is remote from these things, there is no blame to attach to it. But where there is blame, is in trying to hide the fact that it took place. The Native American genocide museum is small and struggles for funding. The US should invest in a full fledge national museum of the Native American genocide. A museum for people to understand what went on.

In response to ergatis Columbus was not just an explorer but had such a terrible record in his abuses of the Native peoples here in the west that even Spain recalled him for the atrosities that he committed.

This anti-Columbus news observed in 09 is the most open yet. In the Columbus Parade in Denver, Colorado in the U.S., Indian people annually protest it. Lots of news about Indian people who resist the colonizers gets censored in the U.S. mainstream media such as news that happens at the Arizona border between the Tohono O'odham, Native Americans who live on the border and Homeland Security. I suspect if the public knew this information they would question the federal government more. Better to keep the public uneducated and uninformed, so the public is easy to control. Glad Columbus Day was renamed the Day of Indigenous Resistance in S. America. What Wayne Madsen said in defense of Indian people in U.S. is generally true. Why couldn't you interview an informed Indian person about this? I will add in regards to the media: where are the Indian writers, producers and leading actors in dramas and comedies. Low count of people in managerial positions in the entertainment business. In the late 60's and early 70's, lots of resistance happened among young Indian people which produced the Occupation of Alcatraz and Wounded Knee. All this happened along side the women's movement, other peoples of color movements, student strikes in U.S. and the anti-Vietnam war. Whenever most filmmakers make videos about what happened in the 60's, the filmmaker usually fails to include the Indian people who resisted colonialism, which I don't get. Is it being uninformed? I'm a Dine' filmmaker so the media is my business to know. To find out what happens, have to search the alternative press where it's not ignored. Also, do I view any information written about the indigenous people who live in Russia in the mainstream press. No. Colonizers are worldwide. To be an Indian in the U. S. and in Canada has improved ONLY A LITTLE. I WANT MUCH MORE CHANGE. Why should a Dine' filmmaker be happy about Columbus Day? Something's happening here. Good for the indigenous people.

Let me say that the Spanish Kingdom was an example for other imperial powers in everything regarding to rights, civil status and consideration of the native populations. It is -however- certain, that as it always happened, several abuses and crimes were committed by some explorers and soldiers before a legal basis to protect indians was created but this can't tarnish the good policies towards Indians (check the example of Bartolomé de las Casas, the testament of Isabel the Catholic, the Laws of Burgos, the New Laws, the "Siete Partidas", and so on). You can't tell the Europeans were genocides because they had some viruses the Indians didn't had and neither because they conversed Indians to Catholicism and taught them Spanish or Portuguese and they imposed a new political system, but you can tell Aztecs were really genocides towards their subjugated neighbors (and not because any strange virus).