The Depth of Historical Trauma
The Pain They Chose to Ignore
A statue of Christopher Columbus toppled from its stand in June 2020 on the east side of the Minnesota State Capitol. (Image: Darren Thompson/Native News Online)
At 50, I'm old. I'm so old, I remember sitting inside a Fairview Elementary School classroom being taught who Christopher Columbus was in the early 1980s in Anchorage, Alaska.
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