Bonus Episode: Celebrate Indigenous People's Day, Not Columbus

All My Relations Podcast

Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane

Native, Documentary, Pop Culture, Contemporary Native American Culture, Relationships, Society, Indigenous, Native American, Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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The foundational narrative we teach our children about Columbus is rooted in myth and falsity. Instead of teaching our real Native American history, or our real humanity, we’ve settled for American mythology. When we celebrate Columbus, we are blindly supporting indigenous erasure and perpetuating the romantic, dire, insatiable story of extinction. It’s the story that dilutes Native American genocide, and celebrates notions of pioneering, settlement, and manifest destiny. These myths reject i...

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0:00.0	5 myths about Christopher Columbus.
0:04.5	I'm ready.
0:05.3	Columbus proved that the flat earth theory was wrong.
0:08.7	That's a lie.
0:09.9	People by that time, like people from like 3000 BC knew that the world was round.
0:17.4	And like definitely by the 1400s people were very aware that the world was round.
0:22.0	Dude didn't prove anything.
0:23.4	Columbus was a townion.
0:25.8	No, he wasn't.
0:27.4	He was born in Genoa, which was an independent republic.
0:31.4	And is now part of Italy, but at the time was not.
0:36.0	And he sailed for Spain.
0:37.6	And Spain was the one who gave him all the money for the trip and supported him.
0:42.4	And there's even debate of if he was born in Genoa or was born in Portugal or Spain.
0:47.5	So it was very unclear.
0:48.6	And he wasn't like a proud Italian by any accounts because Italy didn't exist yet.
0:52.9	Columbus was a successful businessman and a model leader.
0:59.2	No, he wasn't.
1:00.6	He wasn't even a good businessman.
1:02.7	He had to like beg hella people to give him money for his trip.
1:06.0	And then once he got there, he just like enslaved everyone and wanted all sorts of people to give him gold.
1:12.9	And then by the time he got back, Spain was so embarrassed by his actions that they took away his gubernatorial title.
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