Columbus
MN Education Commissioner Cheri Pierson Yecke states on the MPR Midday Radio Program, 11/4, that there is no connection between Columbus and Native American Genocide, and argues that children's lesson plans should supress any such connection. She does not acknowledge that Columbus's advent to Indian lands initiated policies of genocide for the indigenous people of North America.

Of course, Columbus didn't want genocide. He enslaved them....but he only killed the ones who resisted. Much better.

....and since when did any children's lessons teach anything bad about Columbus?