What does respecting America's native people have to do with objecting to the silliness of taking away Columbus day.
I have a great deal of respect for the Indians, and some rage at the (past) Americans who destroyed their lives and culture, and I have been to Little Big Horn and respect the changes made to the previously pro-Custer (who was a creep) battlefield.
And I still think this meaningless gesture and demonization of Columbus is revisionist history and stupid.
What you call "revisionist" the Native Americans call the truth. For now I can empathize with their rage against what they consider false history.
I say tell both versions, and likely a more accurate version will emerge that is closer to the truth.
That is what they did at Little Big Horn. I say do it everywhere.
In my own local area, there is the history of workers in the citrus orchards (called ranches). First they came (were brought) for seasonal work. Then they stayed year round, in housing built by the ranch owners for them, rented or sold to them.
I personally know some of their descendants, because I grew up with them, lived on opposite sides of town. One woman from my childhood church is considered an expert historian regarding those people, their lives and neighborhoods.
But the people themselves, some still living, tell different versions. I want to hear their side.
Those people, sons and daughters and grandchildren of WWII soldiers, are gaining their voices, after decades of underclass status.
And politically, when the political right tolerates nativism in their ranks, brands these people as "wetbacks" and worse like Trump does, they will surely never be friends of the GOP, even though they hold conservative values.
