Before Monday's Columbus Day Parade, Italian Americans and Native Americans in Chicago are trying to come together to open a dialogue over the controversy that has surrounded the holiday for years.
Maher KawashBefore Monday's Columbus Day Parade, Italian Americans and Native Americans in Chicago are trying to come together to open a dialogue over the controversy that has surrounded the hBefore Monday's Columbus Day Parade, Italian Americans and Native Americans in Chicago are trying to come together to open a dialogue over the controversy that has surrounded the holiday for years.
Frank Black Cloud and more than 20 others from his tribe in North Dakota traveled to Chicago this weekend to join arms with Italian Americans on Columbus Day. They gathered for a flag raising ceremony at Daley Plaza Friday, honoring the Italian culture and the history of Native Americans. On Monday, the group from North Dakota will join Chicagoans in the 72nd annual Columbus Day Parade down State Street between Wacker and Van Buren. But another organization, the Chicago American Indian Community Collaborative, is pushing back against the celebration.
They said the history of Christopher Columbus' mistreatment of Native Americans casts a shadow over the holiday.
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