Simon Pokagon, a Potawatomi leader from Michigan, issued this short protest as Chicago celebrated four hundred years since Columbus at the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. Printed on white birch bark, it sets Columbus’s own praise of the peoples he met against the wars, broken treaties and dispossession that followed.
A brief, eloquent Native American indictment of the nation’s self-congratulation, as relevant as ever. Download the free EPUB.