What does this quote mean? what is harjo trying to say?
columbus day, never on native america’s list of favorite holidays, became somewhat tolerable as its significance diminished to little more than a good shopping day. but this next long year [1992- the 500 year anniversary] of columbus hoopla will be tough to take amid the spending sprees and horn blowing to tout a five-century feeding frenzy that has left native people and this red quarter of mother earth in a state of emergency. for native people, this half millennium of land grabs and one-cent treaty sales has been no bargain.
-suzan shown harjo