youtu.be/H6x9EA1rZwQ ‘Lies My Teacher Told Me.’ “Over the past couple years, we’ve had a book club that a variety of our membership participate in. And we’ve been focusing on Native American historical trauma,” said Circles of Support Director Alice Moren. “One of the books we just finished was ‘Lies My Teacher Told Me.’ And throughout these conversations, the whole Columbus thing just keeps coming up.” The reason why Columbus Day is celebrated to begin with, of course, has to do with the fact that he was responsible for one of the most significant events in human history; the bridging of two hemispheres of human civilization on Earth. According to renowned scientist and scientific communicator Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, it was the single most important event in human history, though he keeps his observation neutral on moral grounds and doesn’t refer to it as good or bad. Just important. Even recognizing that the famous Viking explorer Leif Ericson landed in the Americas centuries before Columbus, it was the Spanish voyage that began a continued cultural connection between the two lands and peoples. - Read more grandrapidsmn/news/questioning-columbus-day/article_b1035050-4eee-11e4-98fe-13cbbcdd3158.html
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