Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Five hundred and five years after Christopher Columbus arrived in North America, members and supporters of the Native American Program at Harvard celebrated their "unobservance of Columbus...
Annabel L. Bradford '98, a member of Native Americans at Harvard-Radcliffe, initiated the evening by relating her feelings about Columbus...
...event will help raise awareness about the dominant culture's interpretation of civilization since Columbus's arrival," said Dean A. Flechs, a staff member of the Harvard Native American Program, which is affiliated with the Graduate School of Education...
Many of the participants said Harvard's recognition of Columbus Day as an official holiday is offensive to Native Americans...
Other participants read contemporary commentary on the lives of Native Americans a half century after Columbus's arrival...