What do you think of this quote by Leo Killsback, a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation? "Indigenous Peoples' Day represents a much more honest and fair representation of American values."
agree or disagree?
why you voted the way you did?

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

I partially agree with the quote because it tries to represent an important point.

When we in the western world, celebrate the Discovery of the Americas by Cristopher Columbus every October 12, we are accepting the fact that people from Europe came to the Americas and changed the way native people lived. Indie, we assume that white European people brought the civilized world to the Americas, considerin the Native American Indians and the Mesoamerican Indian tribes as ignorant, primitive, or savages. But who granted the Europeans the authority to try to impose their customs, culture, and values over the Native American Indian tribes? Nobody.

Those tribes already existed in the Americas and lived a wonderful life without the presence and culture of the European people.

They have lived thousands of years previous to the arrival of the Europeans. They loved and respected mother earth and everything it gave the Indians to make a living. They had a culture, traditions, and oral history passed generation through generation.

That is why, Leo Killsback, a professor at Arizona State University, affirmed that "Indigenous Peoples' Day represents a much more honest and fair representation of American values." Professor Killsback teaches American Indian Studies.