A Tale of Two Columbus Day Declarations: Trump vs Obama

Daniel Heck
8 min readOct 12, 2020
Photo by Blaz Erzetic on Unsplash

I live in Columbus, Ohio and my wife’s father came from Italy. According to family lore and genealogical work, we also both have Native American ancestry, but are not on any tribal rolls. My understanding is that some of my indigenous ancestors were Lenape, and my wife’s were probably Cherokee.

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Daniel Heck

Community Organizer. Enemy Lover. I pastor and practice serious, loving and fun discourse. (Yes, still just practicing.)