Word: columbus
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Brillembourg read a few excerpts from a collection of poetry entitled Columbus...
...event, which for the first time was officially recognized by the College, included poetry reading, singing of a traditional Native American song and a recount of atrocities committed by Columbus against Native Americans as indicated in his journals...
...Other places have realized that Columbus Day is not about the victory of the West but about the loss of lives and cultures important to this nation," said Claire E. Brillembourg '01, co-president of the Harvard branch of Amnesty International...
...Within 25 years of Columbus' first landing, several million Taino Indians were killed on the island of Hispaniola. Within a century, the entire race had been exterminated," read one of the flyers passed out at the vigil...
Brillembourg noted that Harvard has laggedbehind other schools in recognizing theinappropriateness of celebrating Columbus Day as adiscovery instead of a defeat