By: Teresa

Teresa
Fri, 27 Oct 2017 19:08:37 +0000

As an Indigenous member of the faculty here at OSU I am encouraged our undergraduates engaging this topic and bringing this conversation to campus.

I wouldn’t personally characterize the celebration of Columbus as “incredibly triggering” – I think that’s an overstatement that makes the effort sound more radicalized than it is. This suggested shift is largely an effort to educate about the pre-colonial histories and cultures of people in the Americas and their unique relationship in emergent post-colonial society, which is not widely taught in American schools. In line with that, I find it fascinating that Mr. Davis would go on record with his statement that “[the Indigenous people of the Americas] weren’t civilized people.” The need for this educational effort presents itself evidently in his remarks as well as many of the other comments here.