Recently in Los Angeles, Columbus day has been replaced with “Indigenous Peoples Day”. After many years, the horrific reminder of a holiday has been revoked, indigenous people couldn’t be more ecstatic. Throughout the years, some Americans still think Christopher Columbus is the “greatest guy ever.”  He’s also called “the founder of America”, which is so untrue, according to history.  He was on a quest to travel to the west indies.

He’s considered to many people, a greedy guy, all he wanted was gold and glory. While he was on his “voyage”, but really just looking for gold, he is considered the start of an entire civilization for his own greed. During that era, that is when slavery started to grow, so Christopher Columbus forced many natives into becoming slaves and forced them into a life full of violence and brutality. Also, a lot of them died on their way to become slaves or of diseases the european’s had spread. He made a lot of Natives become his own personal slave and would make them do the unthinkable, like searching high and low for gold even if he knew there wasn’t gold there. He took over their land, stole their gold, and even sexually assaulted their women. During that era,  Christopher Columbus enslaved many of the West Natives and forced them into a life of violence and brutality.

No matter who you ask, many native Americans do not like Christopher Columbus. It’s honestly a good idea, in my opinion, to get rid of the holiday. It’s just a constant reminder of what he did to those people.