Building Bridges:

Your Community & Labor Report- National Edition

Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash



Reexamining Columbus:

The Voices of Native People:

With special guest Dean K. Hutchins – Native American poet and writer who reads his three part chronicle (past, present and future) reflecting on Columbus, Columbus Day, on & Native Americans.

“When Taino Indians saved Christopher Columbus from certain death

on the fateful morning of Oct. 12, 1492, a glorious opportunity presented

itself. The cultures Europe of and the Americas could have merged and the beauty of both races could have flourished.




Unfortunately, what occurred was neither beautiful nor heroic. Just

as Columbus could not, and did not, “discover” a hemisphere that was

already inhabited by nearly 100 million people, his arrival cannot, and will

not, be recognized as a heroic and celebratory event by indigenous peoples…



…For people of goodwill, there is no better time for the re-examination

of the past, and a rectification of the historical record for future generations…”




Russell Means and Glenn Morris wrote this

in 1991 on behalf of the American Indian Movement of Colorado

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