And now, as we said, we're going to do, we're going to wrap up the show by opening the

phones for teachers on this school holiday.

For New York City public schools, for example, today is Italian Heritage Slash Indigenous

People's Day.

My wall calendar and the federal government still call it Columbus Day.

You can go from the Red Hawk Native American Arts Council's Indigenous People's Day celebration

on Randall's Island today to the 79th annual Columbus Day Parade just getting started

along Fifth Avenue.

There's an Indigenous People's Parade next Saturday, I understand.

So the question is, teachers on this day off from school, how have you navigated this

change of cultural direction?

How have you navigated this change of name?

212-433-WNYC, 212-433-9692?

We know that objections to celebrating Christopher Columbus as an individual have been around

for years, so complicated by the fact that he became a symbol of pride for Italian immigrants

and their descendants, so teachers, how do you teach this hybrid holiday of Italian heritage

and Indigenous People's Day, linked only by this cultural shift in how we see Christopher

Columbus.

Teachers, let us hear from you, how are you doing it?

And if you've been in the system for a long time, whatever school system, and you used

to talk about Columbus Day and the Nina and the painter and the Santa Maria and Christopher

Columbus in 1492, sail the ocean blue and, quote, discovered America, how have you evolved

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