RE Remembering Columbus Day: "Scholars say the Doctrine of Discovery holds immense importance in world history. They say it resulted in disaster and genocide for native peoples, but that its legacy remains largely overlooked." 

We really need to acknowledge that what was done in the "discovery of America" was, actually, a war of one people stealing the land of another people.  If it happened today, we would recognize the right of the current occupants of the land to continue to own and rule their own land.

We can't unwind the thousands of years of history in which one people made war on another.  Land has changed hands so many times that what we have now is some sort of right of current ownership, frozen into place and only to be changed according to current laws.  

But we descendants of European conquerors should acknowledge how we got what we got by stealing it, killing people who were only doing what we would now do if some invader tried to conquer us.  Might does make right(s).