This past Monday, with 14 states, including North Carolina, and 130 cities, I celebrated Indigenous Peoples' Day. I note with dismay that the current Occupant of the Oval Office clings to the colonizer Christopher Columbus and the fascist rhetoric of the great and noble Italian explorer "discovering" the glorious mythic nation. He fails to mention that the continent was already inhabited by millions of Indigenous people and cultures. Nor does he mention the 15th century "Doctrine of Discovery." This little-known doctrine was a series of devastating theological, political, and legal justifications for European Christian rulers to seize, occupy, and settle other people's lands. To European eyes, the land was terra nullius , legally deemed empty. Neither were the indigenous inhabitants considered fully human. The implicit racial bias in the Doctrine of Discovery permitted indescribable evil.  Scholars estimate that 13 million Indigenous people in the United Sta