School students have joined tribal members and state lawmakers to try and gain support for a bill to rename Columbus Day as “Indigenous Peoples Day” in Wisconsin. Youngsters from Milwaukee’s Indian Community School were among those rallying for the change at the State Capitol on Tuesday. The bill’s author, Assembly Democrat David Bowen of Milwaukee, says Americans should not celebrate the arrival of Christopher Columbus, saying he should be credited with boosting the “trans Atlantic slave trade than with discovering America.” Bowen first announced his bill on the October tenth Columbus Day holiday, but it hasn’t gone anywhere. Milwaukee County and Madison are already calling it “Indigenous People’s Day.”
