Yale Daily News

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Columbus Day under assault

Contributing Reporter
Published Monday, October 9, 2000

About 50 members of the Yale community joined together at the Women's Table last night to encourage students to "Rethink Columbus Day."

The Association of Native Americans at Yale, in conjunction with the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, the Yale African Students Alliance and several other ethnic groups, sponsored a vigil on the eve of Columbus Day to raise awareness of the oppression of peoples throughout the world.

Students gave speeches about the failure to teach about the dark side of American history and oppression and sang African American spirituals and...

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