Pansing Brooks says Columbus not only didn't step foot into Nebraska, but never stepped foot into North America. Says Native Americans like Chief Standing Bear and others deserve to be celebrated.
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At a legislative hearing on a bill that would replace Columbus Day with Indigenous People Day. Sen. Patty Pansing Brooks names multiple conservative states that don’t celebrate Columbus Day.pic.twitter.com/Oki4FUcbFA
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The first testifier says it's embarrassing how the state still celebrates Columbus, who he says was a genocidal butcher, according to Columbus's own journal.
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Larry Wright Jr. Tribal Chair for the Ponca of Nebraska, says "rape, enslavement and theft are not things to be honored." Fully supports them changing the holiday.
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