1990–1992
Resistance / redressBook sources
Indigenous mobilization against Columbus commemorations
Americas; Indigenous organizations and allies
Meetings in Quito and California helped coordinate opposition to celebrations that romanticized conquest. Protests and educational work challenged the erasure of enslavement, violence and surviving Indigenous peoples.
Dates preserve the source’s precision. This entry is part of a selected historical record; its qualifications and sources are retained below.
Context / qualification
Resistance and public-memory entry; not a claim that the protests were racist.
Sources
- Howard Zinn, The Twentieth Century: A People’s History, H06 at 00:28:31 (approximate; supplied recording)
- Howard Zinn, The Twentieth Century: A People’s History, H06 at 00:29:38 (approximate; supplied recording)
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 11