Christopher Columbus Day Research Paper

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Christopher Columbus should be honored and Columbus Day should be celebrated because he was not the sole cause of the massacre of the Natives of America. The article "Should we celebrate Christopher Columbus?" by Silvio Laccetti, McClatchy Tribune, and Los Angeles Times Editorial Board, also assert that Columbus Day should be celebrated. The authors portrayed that “calculating an actual number of deaths is impossible because estimates of pre-Columbus populations vary enormously.” In other words, there is no actual proof that Christopher Columbus killed “70 percent to 80 percent” of the Native Americans. Thus, no one can prove that he killed a majority of the Native population because there was a variety of population and no one to prove the