Columbus Day, Wounded Knee, and the Lessons of Pine Ridge

Columbus Day, Wounded Knee, and the Lessons of Pine Ridge

Creekside Singers in performance with members of the South Dakota Symphony. Photo: Dave Eggen/Inertia/South Dakota Symphony.)This article is brought to you by American Purpose, the magazine and community founded by Francis Fukuyama in 2020, which is proudly part of the Persuasion family.President Donald J. Trump’s Columbus Day proclamation, on October 9, pledged “to reclaim [Christopher Columbus’s] extraordinary legacy of faith, courage, perseve…