The Native Americans were treated with no respect. “The term “Indian” and most other names of major Native American groups are terms of convenience applied by White Americans. In most history books, not one of the major Native American groups is recorded under its own name,” (Hall, 2011). Native Americans have different tribes and have culturally diverse groups, about over 500 tribes. Over the years, time and centuries the Native Americans have been misunderstood and mistreated, even by their own conquerors. “The European immigrants who followed Christopher Columbus did not understand the native people any more than the Native Americans comprehended their invaders,” (Hall, 2011).

Columbus made a comment about the Native Americans in his diary saying, “It appears to me that the people [of the New World] are ingenious and would be good servants. . . . These people are very unskilled in arms. . . . With fifty men they could all be subjected to do all that one wishes,” (Hatchet, G. (2000). This obviously grew conflict between the Native Americans and the Whites. As for Columbus Day, each year the Native Americans protest Columbus Day. The protest includes and demonstrates the history and the importance of examining and searching for the real and true facts beyond what has been printed in text books. These protest allow Native Americans to have further investigation and discussion by historians about the actual events that took place. I think we need to have a better understanding and meaning of the holiday Columbus Day and not just as “Americans” focusing on an opportunity store sale.

I think that the mayor should most definitely support the Native American group. The Native Americans have suffered enough and personally everyone has their own story and life to tell but the simple fact that the history seems like it changes when it is passed in text books and