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While holding firm in his political stance, Alliger emphasizes that dance can be a completely unobtrusive form of activism. This past Columbus Day, for example, Dance Umbrella staged a two-day "Pow-wow" at the Hatch Shell in Boston. This festival brought together a variety of Native American and Latin music, dance, crafts, storytelling and theater to provide a different perspective of the 500th anniversary of the "discovery" of America. "This event was meant to be educational, not confrontational," claims Alliger. "We were celebrating 500 years of survival of the Native American people...
...Pope has just completed a trip to the Dominican Republic to celebrate the arrival of Christianity 500 years ago with the arrival of Christopher Columbus. As the chief evangelist of Christ's gospel on earth, the visit was indisputably inappropriate, whatever one thinks of the fifteenth century explorer...
...during the visit, the best the Pope could come up with by way of denouncing the brutality, slavery and genocide initiated by Columbus--in many cases, in the name, and with the justification of the Church--was that the Vatican tried to restrain the troops' excesses...
...training center at Sagres, on his country's Atlantic coast. Inspired by Henry's seafaring passion, such explorers as Bartolomeu Dias and Vasco Da Gama sailed down the coast of Africa and eventually to India. From the rival ports of Palos and Cadiz, under the flag of Spain, Christopher Columbus set out westward on his seminal voyage of discovery, eventually journeying four times to what he never believed was a New World. His discovery of America, Van Doren notes, "is probably the single greatest addition to human knowledge ever made...
...landmark movements that have shaped the modern era -- from the ocean voyages of Columbus and Magellan to the Protestant Reformation and the print revolution, from the development of the scientific method to the Industrial Revolution -- were largely produced by those hated demons of American multiculturalists, dead white European males. Until 1400, all but a handful of innovations in European life had been anticipated by the Arabs or the Chinese. After 1600, virtually every technological change that affected the world and the way people lived -- from the telescope to the typewriter, from the fork to the steam engine -- has been...