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Monday, October 14, 2002Subject: INDIANS PLAN SOMBER DAY INDIANS PLAN SOMBER DAY Friday, October 11, 2002 NEWS - FAITH & VALUES 03D http://libpub.dispatch.com/cgi-bin/documentv1?DBLIST=cd02&DOCNUM=44561&TERMV=161:7:287:7:25970:7: Scrapping or renaming the Santa Maria would be good ways for the city to celebrate Columbus Day, a spokesman for local American Indians said. The replica of the flagship on Christopher Columbus' voyage to this continent in 1492 is moored along the Scioto River, west of City Hall. A march to the boat will follow a prayer circle at 10 a.m. Monday at Bicentennial Park, on the northwest corner of W. Main Street and Civic Center Drive, said Mark A. Welsh, treasurer of the Native American Association of Central Ohio. "We're hoping to make people realize that Christopher Columbus had a lot of good points and a lot of bad points, notably the genocide of Native American people,'' he said. Welsh said the center wants the city to get rid of the Santa Maria or at least describe both sides of the voyage's effects. Another option, he said, would be for the city to rename the boat "Spirit of Ohio'' or something else that doesn't glorify the damage to American Indians from Europeans' arrival. posted by Webmaster@ AIM Support 3:07 PM Last updated:
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